Epileptic Disorders
MENUPost-ictal forceful yawning in a patient with nondominant hemisphere epilepsy Volume 8, numéro 1, March 2006
Auteurs
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
- Mots-clés : yawning, epilepsy, autonomic seizures, post-ictal phenomene
- Page(s) : 65-9
- Année de parution : 2006
Yawning has been rarely described in association with seizures and not previously documented by video-EEG. We present a 48-year-old woman with a long history of non-dominant for speech hemisphere seizures and post-ictal yawning. Yawning was irresistible, forceful and often repetitive. We reviewed the few similar epileptic cases described in the literature and discussed the possible mechanisms. [Published with video sequences]