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A Clinical Study on Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
Author(s) -
Satomura Atsushi,
Ono Tsuneo,
Kobayashi Shinichi,
Sue Hironari,
Yagi Kazuichi,
Seino Masakazu
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1988.tb01360.x
Subject(s) - frontal lobe , epilepsy , psychology , temporal lobe , automatism (medicine) , electroencephalography , anesthesia , medicine , audiology , neuroscience
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.