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Post-ictal forceful yawning in a patient with nondominant hemisphere epilepsy Volume 8, numéro 1, March 2006

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  • Post-ictal forceful yawning in a patient with nondominant hemisphere epilepsy

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Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

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]