Epilepsy is both a disease of the brain and the mind. Here, we present the first of two papers with extended summaries of selected presentations of the Third International Congress on Epilepsy, Brain and Mind (April 3-5, 2014; Brno, Czech Republic). Epilepsy in history and the arts and its relationships with religion were discussed, as were overviews of epilepsy and relevant aspects of social cognition, handedness, accelerated forgetting and autobiographical amnesia, and large-scale brain networks.

Clinical Epilepsy Section National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Bethesda MD USA

Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation and Technology Harvard Medical School Boston MA USA

Danish Epilepsy Centre Filadelfia Dianalund Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine Neurological Service Federal University of Santa Catarina Florianópolis SC Brazil

Department of Biomedical Metabolic and Neural Sciences University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena Italy

Department of EEG Dutch Epilepsy Clinics Foundation Heemstede The Netherlands

Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology St Olav's Hospital Trondheim University Hospital Trondheim Norway; Department of Neuroscience Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway

Department of Neurology Charles University 2nd Faculty of Medicine Motol University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Department of Neurology University Hospital and Medical School of Geneva Switzerland

Department of Paediatric Neurology Charles University 2nd Faculty of Medicine Motol University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Epilepsy Centre University Hospital Freiburg Germany

Epilepsy Group Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre St George's Hospital London UK; Institute of Medical and Biomedical Sciences St George's University of London London UK

Institute for Drug Research School of Pharmacy Faculty of Medicine The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Israel

Laboratory for the Study of Learning and Development University of Bourgogne Dijon France

Masaryk University Brno Epilepsy Center St Anne's Hospital and School of Medicine Brno Czech Republic; Central European Institute of Technology Brno Czech Republic

MINCEP Epilepsy Care University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA; College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA

Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Montreal Canada

National Centre for Epilepsy Oslo University Hospital Norway

Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv Israel

School of Psychology and Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre Cardiff University Cardiff Wales UK

UCLA Neurology Los Angeles CA USA

University of Exeter Medical School St Luke's Campus Exeter UK

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