A Clinical Study on Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Vol. 42 (3) , 569-570
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1988.tb01360.x
Abstract
Of 30 patients whose epileptogenic focus was presumed to be located in the frontal lobe on the basis of a clinico-electrographic correlation, the principal seizure manifestation consisted of peculiar automatisms in about 40% of the cases. However, the nature of the automatisms was of a short duration lasting about one minute but in most cases it was accompanied by extremely violent movements, but this was not true in all cases. Of the 30 cases, only 5 cases showed marked improvement one year after being discharged from the hospital so that this type of seizure event is extremely intractable.Keywords
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