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Autoimmune musicogenic bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy Volume 24, issue 5, October 2022

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  • Autoimmune musicogenic bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy
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Authors
1 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP, UK
2 Newcastle University Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
Correspondence:
Rhys H. Thomas
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP, UK

We present the case of a 36-year-old teaching assistant with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy with predominantly musicogenic seizures and hypothyroidism. She had a single unknown-onset tonic-clonic seizure from sleep at seven years of age and experienced increasingly frequent episodes of déjà-vu from adolescence. These were not recognized as focal cognitive seizures until she had further tonic-clonic seizures from sleep aged 26 years, by which time the déjà-vu events were more prolonged with [...]