Pink Floyd and seizure warning sign

From the Journal of Emergency Medicine: "De Novo Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation: Pink Floyd's Song "Brick in the Wall" as a Warning Sign." (via NCBI ROFL)

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Anonymous

#4,

We don’t need no…malformation
We don’t need no blood vessel growth
No rythmic bruits in the temples
Hey! Surgeon! Leave that nidus alone!
Anonymous

Ahem.
“We don’t need no…malformation”
A little help, please?
technogeek

Well, someone playing it loud is certainly a diagnostically significant indication that they’re probably frustrated as all bleeping bleep…
gabu

I’ve always thought of “One of My Turns” as an hallucination/seizure inducer — that part right after “dry as a funeral drum…” when he busts through and wails, “Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left you’ll find my favorite axe…”
- Michael Smith
  
  #2,
  
  Yes I have temporal lobe epilepsy and I have always thought The Wall was about epilepsy. But a friend of mine insists it is just about drugs.
justanotherusername

Whether it is ultimately viewed as a cynical story about the futility of life, or a hopeful journey of metaphorical death and rebirth, the Wall is certainly a musical milestone worthy of the title “art.”
Sammybenoit

Could it be the “Brown Acid?”