The Pattern of Conduction of Amygdaloid Seizure Discharge

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Introduction Among the clinical manifestations of focal epileptic discharge, one of the most interesting and least understood phenomena is certainly that of ictal epileptic automatism. Hughlings Jackson and Colman, in 1898,1 were the first to recognize that this epileptic manifestation oftenest had its origin in the uncinate gyrus, though they considered the automatism to be postictal. Jasper2; Gastaut and associates,3,4 and Jasper, Pertuiset, and Flanigin5 arrived at similar conclusions on the basis of electrographic studies and incriminated deep temporal structures, especially the rhinencephalic formations of the temporal lobe, as the possible locus of origin of the discharge resulting in so-called "psychomotor" attacks. Recent investigations by Feindel, Penfield, and Jasper6 confirmed this opinion and suggested that ictal automatism most frequently depends upon focal discharge originating in the region of the amygdala.7 It is also from this region that, in patients undergoing surgical treatment for epileptic

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