title: Crying with sorrow evoked by electrocortical stimulation.
abstract: Dacrystic seizures are rare and have been reported in patients with hypothalamic hamartoma as well as fronto-temporal epilepsy, involving the non-dominant hemisphere. We describe the first reported case of cortical stimulation of the left posterior orbito-frontal gyrus, generating consistent and reproducible crying with affective content in a 41-year-old woman with medically intractable left temporal lobe epilepsy, who underwent extraoperative intracranial video-EEG monitoring for resective non-lesional epilepsy surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
authors.forename: Tyson
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Burghardt
authors.forename: Maysaa M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Basha
authors.forename: Darren
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fuerst
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mittal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003448:Crying / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*
keywords: cortical stimulation; dacrystic seizures; extraoperative intracranial video-EEG; subdural electrode implantation