title: Seizures manifesting as an urge to defecate, with an ictal discharge in the right hemisphere.
abstract: We report a 47-year-old right-handed woman with simple partial seizures manifesting in part as an urge to defecate shortly after a visual distortion. On at least one occasion, this was followed by head deviation to the left and a secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizure. The ictal electroencephalogram lateralized to the right hemisphere, suggesting that the ictal urge to defecate may lateralize to this side.
authors.forename: Mohamad Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Koubeissi
authors.forename: Nathan E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Crone
authors.forename: Ronald P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Lesser
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003672:Defecation; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014743:Videotape Recording