Epileptic Disorders
MENUReflex operculoinsular seizures Volume 18, issue 1, March 2016
TEST YOURSELF
(1) What are reflex seizures?
(2) Name some of the triggered factors in reflex seizures.
(3) What type of reflex seizures may be encountered in operculo-insular epilepsy?
Answers
(1) Reflex seizures are epileptic events triggered by specific motor, sensory or cognitive stimulation.
(2) Visual, somatosensory/proprioceptive stimuli, thinking, music, eating, praxis, reading, hot water and startle.
(3) Reflex eating seizures, reflex somatosensory seizures, audiogenic reflex seizures and possibly bathing epilepsy.