Epileptic Disorders
MENUPsychogenic gelastic seizures in a patient with hypothalamic hamartoma Volume 14, numéro 2, June 2012
Auteurs
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Mots-clés : hypothalamic hamartoma, gelastic seizure, psychogenic non-epileptic seizure, video-EEG monitoring
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2012.0509
- Page(s) : 187-9
- Année de parution : 2012
Gelastic seizures are classically associated with hypothalamic hamartoma. The most effective treatment for gelastic epilepsy is surgery, although confirming that a hypothalamic hamartoma is an epileptic lesion prior to surgical intervention is challenging. Here, we report the case of a patient with a hypothalamic hamartoma who was diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic gelastic seizures using video-EEG monitoring. [ Published with video sequences]