Aggression in temporal lobe epilepsy and limbic psychotic trigger reaction implicating vagus kindling of hippocampus/amygdala (in sinus abnormalites on MRIs)

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 245-257

  Pontius, Anneliese A ^a,c   LeMay, Marjorie J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Frankfurt/M   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Exhibitionism; Hippocampus; Homicide; Kindling; Limbic psychotic trigger reaction; Partial limbic seizures; Respiratory epilepsy; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEAD INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KINDLING; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC PSYCHOTIC TRIGGER REACTION; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0037406613     PISSN: 13591789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-1789(01)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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