title: Ictal kissing and religious speech in a patient with right temporal lobe epilepsy.
abstract: We report the case of a 25-year-old female patient with intractable complex partial seizures characterized by repetition of certain religious statements and a rather compulsive kissing behavior. Presurgical evaluation revealed a right-sided, mesial temporal focus and hippocampal sclerosis on MRI. After selective amygdalohippocampectomy, she has only occasional auras. Her rare and peculiar ictal manifestations are discussed in the context of semiology and pathogenesis. [Published with videosequences].
authors.affiliation: Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Turkey. cigdemoz@istanbul.edu.tr
authors.forename: Ciğdem
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ozkara
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sarý
authors.forename: Lütfü
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hanoğlu
authors.forename: Naz
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yeni
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Aydoğdu
authors.forename: Emin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ozyurt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology*; D038481:Anterior Temporal Lobectomy; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012598:Sclerosis; D012919:Social Behavior; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*