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Eating epilepsy. Heterogeneity of ictal semiology: the role of video-EEG monitoring Volume 2, numéro 2, Juin 2000

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Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, via Pansini n° 5, 80131 Napoli, Italy.
  • Page(s) : 93-8
  • Année de parution : 2000

Eating epilepsy (EE) is a rare type of RE. Patients with seizures exclusively or mostly precipitated by eating make up 0.5-1 per thousand of all epileptic patients [1]. Nevertheless, a higher frequency of 25/1,000 has been reported from particular geographic areas of the Indian subcontinent; the very high prevalence of EE in these regions could be pathogenically related to genetic [2] or ethnic factors, such as particular foods and eating [...]