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.
Kho
Kuan H
KH
Department of Neurosurgery, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, P.O. Box 85500, Utrecht, The Netherlands. k.h.kho@umcutrecht.nl
van den Bergh
Walter M
WM
Spetgens
Willy P J
WP
Leijten
Frans S S
FS
D000328:Adult; D001154:Art; D020195:Epilepsy, Reflex / Q000209:etiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D013334:Students