title: Psychomotor-variant type of paroxysmal cerebral dysrhythmia.
abstract: Psychomotor-variant is a rare clinico-electroencephalographic entity, characterized by a great variety of thalamic, hypothalamic and limbic symptoms and by a specific electrographic finding during light sleep, i.e. discharges of notch-topped 6 per second waves, chiefly in the temporal areas. It is rare, occurring among only one percent of patients with epilepsy or a question of epilepsy. Sixty-eight percent of patients with psychomotor-variant disorder improved symptomatically if treated with anti-epileptic medication.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Gibbs
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013575:Syncope / Q000503:physiopathology