Epileptic Disorders
MENUSeizures triggered by eating: a rare form of reflex epilepsy Volume 22, numéro 5, October 2020
Auteurs
1 Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
2 The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK
3 Department of Neuroscience, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia
4 School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
5 Department of Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
* Correspondence: Nirosen Vijiaratnam
Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences,
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- Mots-clés : reflex epilepsies, eating epilepsy, semiology, video-EEG
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2020.1200
- Page(s) : 648-53
- Année de parution : 2020
Eating epilepsy is rare and comprises reflex seizures induced by food intake presenting with broad clinical manifestations. Despite this heterogeneity, a unique focal impaired awareness seizure semiology localizing to specific brain regions has been noted. Here, we present a case with video-EEG depicting this characteristic clinical presentation and its informative electrographic correlate. [Published with video sequence]