Epileptic facial metamorphopsia.
A 14-year-old patient with a right parietal arteriovenous malformation presented with seizures characterized by metamorphopsia of faces. Unlike adults with right hemisphere pathology she performed like an age matched control on a task requiring recognition of unfamiliar faces. This likely reflects maturational changes in hemispheric dominance for face recognition.
D000293:Adolescent; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*