Premium
Temporal lobe epilepsy with apparent suicidal gestures
Author(s) -
Guruvaiah Latha,
Veerasamy Karthik
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.292
Subject(s) - epilepsy , temporal lobe , ictal , gesture , psychology , neuroscience , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence
Various ictal (during the seizure) behaviour patterns have been described in patients with epilepsy. Here, Drs Guruvaiah and Veerasamy describe unusual high‐risk ictal behaviours with the appearance of suicidal gestures in a patient who was subsequently given a diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy.