Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 134-136, February 2001

A mathematical model of internal time processing in temporal lobe epilepsy

Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Received 24 November 1999; accepted 16 July 2000.

Abstract 

Based on known relationships between epileptic and nonepileptic cortical cerebral blood flow, electrocorticographic factors and epileptogenicity, a mathematical model for internal time processing is derived. The model suggests that the human brain has mechanisms for internal processing of real, reverse and imaginary time.

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PII: S0306-9877(00)91092-2

doi:10.1054/mehy.2000.1092

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 134-136, February 2001