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

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..."

Could it be the "Brown Acid?"

Ahem.
"We don't need no...malformation"
A little help, please?

#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.

#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!

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