Description: Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” But what if the “version of past events are disputed?” Where does that leave history and more importantly who determines the accuracy of these events? Dr. John Hughes, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago decided to dive headlong into this question while researching the extensive timeline of historical figures reported to have suffered with epilepsy. “History is only as accurate as how carefully we’ve looked at these events. If we don’t carefully examine events reported to be epileptic seizures, then we are misled into the diagnosis of epilepsy”, said Hughes. Hughes investigated 43 historical figures reported to have had epilepsy ranging chronologically from Pythagorus, born in 582 BC, to the actor Richard Burton, born in 1925. According to Hughes, “All of these people had been reported to have had various kinds of attacks, but they did