title: Fantastic confabulation in right frontal lobe epilepsy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Interictal behavioral symptoms in frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) are variable and often difficult to discriminate from other localization-related epilepsies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We report two female patients with right FLE who exhibited fantastic confabulations. One of the patients had a 14-year history of hypermotor seizures, and the other had a 10-year history of dyscognitive seizures with automatism. Their fantastic confabulations arose in the context of moderate-to-severe cognitive impairment and of a variety of behavioral abnormalities, including emotional withdrawal and compulsive behaviors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Fantastic confabulations are rare but may be a relatively specific behavioral marker for FLE-associated psychosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epileptology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Mayu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujikawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishio
authors.affiliation: Department of Epileptology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Yosuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kakisaka
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Nanayo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, National Center Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iwasaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Epileptology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Nobukazu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakasato
keywords: Confabulation; Frontal lobe epilepsy; Psychosis