Ictal kissing and religious speech in a patient with right temporal lobe epilepsy.
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].
Ozkara
Ciğdem
C
Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Turkey. cigdemoz@istanbul.edu.tr
Sarý
Hüseyin
H
Hanoğlu
Lütfü
L
Yeni
Naz
N
Aydoğdu
Ibrahim
I
Ozyurt
Emin
E
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*