Epileptic Disorders
MENUCrying with sorrow evoked by electrocortical stimulation Volume 15, issue 1, March 2013
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Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery, Wayne State University, and Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA
- Key words: dacrystic seizures, extraoperative intracranial video-EEG, subdural electrode implantation, cortical stimulation
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2013.0559
- Page(s) : 72-5
- Published in: 2013
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.