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.

• Keywords
• Accelerated forgetting, Cognition, Epilepsy, Handedness, Music, Networks, Religion, Social cognition,
• MeSH
• Amnesia diagnosis   psychology   therapy   MeSH
• Epilepsy diagnosis   psychology   therapy   MeSH
• Functional Laterality MeSH
• Internationality * MeSH
• Congresses as Topic * trends   MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical * MeSH
• Brain pathology   MeSH
• Social Behavior MeSH
• Check Tag
• Humans MeSH
• Publication type
• Journal Article MeSH
• Review MeSH
• Geographicals
• Czech Republic MeSH