Figuring out drawing-induced epilepsy.
Rare reflex epilepsies are a clinical curiosity but may also give insight into neurocognitive processes. The authors present a patient whose seizures were precipitated by drawing but not by writing. This dissociation complements previous reports on selective impairment of writing. EEG revealed a focus in the right frontal lobe with parietal spread. This is in accord with current cognitive and neural network models of drawing.
Department of Neurosurgery, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, P.O. Box 85500, Utrecht, The Netherlands. k.h.kho@umcutrecht.nl
Kuan H
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Kho
Walter M
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van den Bergh
Willy P J
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Spetgens
Frans S S
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Leijten
D000328:Adult; D001154:Art; D020195:Epilepsy, Reflex / Q000209:etiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D013334:Students