20 The Epileptologist jokes

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Compliance email: your annual modules are due Friday.

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Front desk: "The system triaged the referral.

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Places I have slept in this hospital, ranked.

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Insurer: "Before the targeted drug, he needs to fail two others.

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Me: "Close your eyes and picture an apple.

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Resident: "He wiped his nose right after the seizure.

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They just approved the first drug that fixes the actual cause of narcolepsy.

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School nurse: "The seizure action plan needs a wet signature and a fax number.

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Why does the second hand seem to freeze the moment you glance at a clock?

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Why does a song get stuck in your head? An 'earworm' is your auditory cortex looping a catchy fragment — usually one it never got to finish. Your brain hates a cliffhanger.

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Lose enough hearing and the brain, refusing the silence, starts scoring your empty apartment with big-band music only you can hear.

b20260815-23 · The Epileptologist $Look at your own eyes in a mirror and flick them side to side. You will never catch them moving. Your brain switches vision off for a few milliseconds during each jump and stitches the gap so smoothly that you're briefly blind a fraction of every second — and never once notice.$ b20260803-17 · The Epileptologist

There's a clump of about 20,000 neurons just above your eyes running a clock you cannot turn off.

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20 The Epileptologist jokes

Grand Rounds, but funny.