Dreaming of seizures.
Could some dreams and temporal lobe seizures share an intrinsic neuronal network? At the interplay of emotion, memory, dream, and temporal lobe seizure, we report on a patient with a left dysplastic amygdala and temporal lobe epilepsy who presented with a typical seizure while dreaming. Neuronal networks subserving affective states are suggested to be involved in emotional dream, memory recall, and amygdalo-hippocampal seizures.
Vercueil
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Clinique Neurologique, CHU Grenoble, Hopital Michalon, Grenoble F-38043, France. Lvercueil@chu-grenoble.fr
D000368:Aged; D000679:Amygdala / Q000473:pathology; D004325:Dreams / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods