Embarrassment as the aura of a complex partial seizure.
A man with a grade II astrocytoma in the medial frontal lobe exhibited complex partial seizures, with the aura being a feeling of extreme embarrassment. This previously unreported ictus suggests that an electric discharge in the prefrontal cortex may produce the opposite effect of prefrontal lesions, in which there is a lack of insight and an absence of the capacity for embarrassment.
D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000150:complications; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*