Frontal lobe epilepsy

Seizure manifesting as a reaching/grasping movement in a patient with post‐traumatic epilepsy

“…However, if the focus was in the mesial frontal lobe, including the right pre‐SMA, the lack of ictal discharge in the scalp EEG would be consistent with a previous report in which slightly more than 50% of the seizures were obscured or showed no EEG change when the focus was in the mesial frontal lobe of epilepsy patients 9. Therefore, we concluded that the lack of ictal discharge in the scalp EEG did not prove that the patient's manifestation was not an epileptic seizure.…”

Prognostic significance of acute postoperative seizures in extra-temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

“…This is especially true in patients who underwent ET resections because of their relatively poor outcome results (Aykut-Bingol et al, 1998;Jeha et al, 2007;Beleza and Pinho, 2011) and higher risk for a postoperative neurological deficit due to removal of eloquent cortical regions (Laskowitz et al, 1995;Ferrier et al, 1999;Mosewich et al, 2000).…”

Temporal relationship between awakening and seizure onset in nocturnal partial seizures

“…Our study did not include patients who were seizure-free after epilepsy surgery. However, the diagnosis of epilepsy was based on the findings of ictal EEG-semiology, interictal EEG, and neuroimaging studies including epilepsy protocol MRI, PET, and ictal-interictal SPECT [26,28,29]. The patients with discordant findings were excluded.…”