title: Neural network underlying ictal humming demonstrated by very early SPECT: a case report.
abstract: We report the case of a 49-year-old right-handed woman with brief partial seizures in which the clinical semiology was marked by an early humming automatism. MRI fusion of the registered ictal and interictal single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) substraction exhibited a left neural network involving lateral temporal, inferior frontal, and inferior parietal cortices.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Medicine Department, INSERM U751, Timone Hospital, Marseille, France. eric.guedj@aphm.fr
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Guedj
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guye
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Laforte
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chauvel
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liegeois-Chauvel
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mundler
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bartolomei
mesh_terms: D001332:Automatism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D010699:Phonation / Q000502:physiology*; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods*