Fantastic confabulation in right frontal lobe epilepsy

BACKGROUND: Interictal behavioral symptoms in frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) are variable and often difficult to discriminate from other localization-related epilepsies. METHODS AND RESULTS: We report two female patients with right FLE who exhibited fantastic confabulations. One of the patients had a 1...

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Autores principales: Fujikawa, Mayu, Nishio, Yoshiyuki, Kakisaka, Yosuke, Ogawa, Nanayo, Iwasaki, Masaki, Nakasato, Nobukazu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5014757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27630818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebcr.2016.08.003
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Interictal behavioral symptoms in frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) are variable and often difficult to discriminate from other localization-related epilepsies. METHODS AND RESULTS: We report two female patients with right FLE who exhibited fantastic confabulations. One of the patients had a 14-year history of hypermotor seizures, and the other had a 10-year history of dyscognitive seizures with automatism. Their fantastic confabulations arose in the context of moderate-to-severe cognitive impairment and of a variety of behavioral abnormalities, including emotional withdrawal and compulsive behaviors. CONCLUSION: Fantastic confabulations are rare but may be a relatively specific behavioral marker for FLE-associated psychosis.

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