Self-induced Photosensitive Absence Seizures With Ictal Pleasure

Faught, Edward; Falgout, Janet C.; Nidiffer, F. Don; Dreifuss, Fritz E.

doi:10.1001/archneur.1986.00520040086028

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“…There has been a considerable debate on the motivation for self-induction 4. Most cases report an uncontrolled desire to induce the seizure and a pleasurable sensation from provoking the attack 5. Usually, a patient cannot voluntarily suppress the compulsive paroxysm.…”

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Hand-biting and hand-waving paroxysms in epilepsy

Selikhova

Scott²,

Silva³

et al. 2012

BMJ Case Reports

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SummaryA 20-year-old ambidextrous female student with a 15-year history of refractory seizures was admitted to the epilepsy department for a second opinion on her diagnosis and treatment. She developed frequent motor paroxysms at the age of 4-5 years, which appeared resistant to antiepileptic therapy and which have continued to the present day. Over the last 8 years she also had five generalised tonicclonic seizures. There is a family history of epilepsy on the maternal side. The first type of episode is characterised by left-hand flickering, associated with head turning and loss of awareness. During the second type of attack the patient demonstrates vigorous hand biting which starts without warning. The patient appears disorientated subsequently. EEG telemetry was performed and confirmed the diagnosis of both epilepsy and non-epileptic attacks. Literature reports of the relevant cases are discussed. BACKGROUND

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Hand-biting and hand-waving paroxysms in epilepsy

Selikhova

Scott²,

Silva³

et al. 2012

BMJ Case Reports

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“…There are perhaps so few documents of epileptic seizures with sexual automatisms, because it is difficult, even today, for patients as well as for physicians to talk about this delicate topic. Often these patients are treated by psychiatrists for their sexual behavior until an epilep tic origin is proven [6,8,11], However, there are also reports of children with sexual automatisms, e.g. mastur bation, which have wrongly been interpreted as epileptic seizures [20,21].…”

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“…mastur bation, which have wrongly been interpreted as epileptic seizures [20,21]. Ictal sexual manifestations are nor mally observed during partial epileptic complex seizures [4][5][6][7][8], but are rarely found during generalized seizures [9][10][11], The latter cases however have never been exam ined with depth electrodes, and thus a focal origin can not be excluded with any great certainty. At the present time there is a lot of disagreement as to the topographic origin of these ictal sexual manifestations.…”

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Partial Complex Epileptic Seizures with Ictal Urogenital Manifestation in a Child

Inthaler

Donati²,

Pavlincova³

et al. 1991

Eur Neurol

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Ictal sexual manifestations, like somatosensory genital phenomena, sexual emotions or sexual automatisms during a partial complex seizure, are very rare. So far the literature has above all described cases in adulthood. We report on a 6-year-old boy with partial complex epileptic seizures which led to confusion, oral and genital automatisms and the urge to urinate. During one epileptic seizure with these urogenital manifestations the EEG showed an epileptic rhythmic discharge over the left temporal region.

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“…Furthermore, we believe in the presence of ecstatic auras, for we have seen a few in our clinic, and some cases have been reported. 26,27 Auras of happiness can also be provoked by electrical stimulation of the temporal neocortex. [28][29][30] Similarly, PETstudies revealed significant relative reductions in glucose metabolism in the mesial temporal structures in patients with de ´ja `vu-/de ´ja `-ve ´cu auras.…”

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Did Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky suffer from mesial temporal lobe epilepsy?

Baumann

Novikov

Regard

et al. 2005

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Many scientific authors--among them famous names such as Henri Gastaut or Sigmund Freud--dealt with the question from what kind of epilepsy Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky (1821-1881) might had suffered. Because of the tight interplay between Dostoevsky's literary work and his own disease we throw light on the author's epilepsy against the background of his epileptic fictional characters. Moreover, we attempt to classify Dostoevsky's epilepsy on the basis of his bibliography, language, and literary work.

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Self-induced Photosensitive Absence Seizures With Ictal Pleasure

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Hand-biting and hand-waving paroxysms in epilepsy

Hand-biting and hand-waving paroxysms in epilepsy

Partial Complex Epileptic Seizures with Ictal Urogenital Manifestation in a Child

Did Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky suffer from mesial temporal lobe epilepsy?

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