title: Epileptic vertigo: evidence for vestibular representation in human frontal cortex.
abstract: The authors report a 5-year-old boy with episodes of epileptic rotational clockwise vertigo without nystagmus. Video-EEG monitoring showed a left frontocentral onset of epileptic discharges accompanied by complaints of vertigo. MRI showed a small low-grade astrocytoma in the left frontal middle gyrus. After lesionectomy, vertiginous seizures ceased. The patient's vertigo seems to be induced by epileptic discharges in a vestibular representation area within the frontal cortex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kluge
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beyenburg
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Elger
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014717:Vertigo / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*