Transient feelings of compulsion caused by hemispheric lesions: three cases.
There was strong evidence of a neurological explanation for transient feelings of compulsion reported by three patients. In at least two cases the mechanism was epileptic. The frontal lobe was implicated in all three. A feeling of compulsion, divorced from action, has rarely if ever been reported in epilepsy or other neurological disorders.
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University Rehabilitation Unit, Southampton General Hospital, UK.
D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed