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Seizures Manifesting as an Urge to Defecate, with an Ictal Discharge in the Right Hemisphere
Author(s) -
Koubeissi Mohamad Z.,
Crone Nathan E.,
Lesser Ronald P.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
epilepsia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.687
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1528-1167
pISSN - 0013-9580
DOI - 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.17505.x
Subject(s) - ictal , defecation , psychology , right hemisphere , partial seizures , tonic (physiology) , lateralization of brain function , epilepsy , audiology , anesthesia , medicine , neuroscience , cognitive psychology
Summary: We report a 47‐year‐old right‐handed woman with simple partial seizures manifesting in part as an urge to defecate shortly after a visual distortion. On at least one occasion, this was followed by head deviation to the left and a secondarily generalized tonic–clonic seizure. The ictal electroencephalogram lateralized to the right hemisphere, suggesting that the ictal urge to defecate may lateralize to this side.