Dostoevsky's Epilepsy and its Portrayal in The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky, a 19th-century Russian novelist with epilepsy, incorporated his personal experience with seizure disorder into his novels, particularly in The Brothers Karamazov where he explores family dynamics and uses psychogenic non-epileptic seizures as a narrative element in the character Smerdyakov's criminal alibi.