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Fear, anger and compulsive behavior during seizure: involvement of large scale fronto-temporal neural networks Volume 4, numéro 4, December 2002

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Service de Neurophysiologie Clinique, CHU Timone, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, 13385 Marseille, France.
  • Page(s) : 235-41
  • Année de parution : 2003

Introduction The semiology of seizures involving the limbic and paralimbic cortex may include intense affective changes. The best known examples are fear and anxiety, and there are generally considered to reflect the involvement of the amygdala during temporal lobe seizures [1]. Following these subjective affective changes, reported by the patient, more complex behavioral and emotional manifestations may appear during seizures such as intense [...]