Citation

Tuft M, Gjelsvik B, Nakken KO. Epilepsy Behav. 2015; 52(Pt A): 218-221.

Affiliation

National Centre for Epilepsy, Oslo University Hospital, Norway. Electronic address: karln@ous-hf.no.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.08.018

PMID

26496010

Abstract

Ian Curtis was the front man of the post-punk band Joy Division. He suffered from epilepsy and actively incorporated his experiences of the disease in his lyrics. Curtis had frequent epileptic seizures, both on and off stage. After dying from suicide in 1980, he became a legend in the post-punk milieu. The impact which the epilepsy, the epilepsy treatment, and comorbid depression had on his artistic life and premature death is not well known.

Language: en