Can memories kindle nonconvulsive behavioral seizures in humans? Case report exemplifying the "limbic psychotic trigger reaction"

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 775-783

  Pontius, Anneliese A ^a,c   Wieser, Heinz Gregor ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal models; Fire setting; Human behavioral seizures; Limbic "paleo consciousness"; Limbic kindling; Limbic psychotic trigger reaction; Memory revival; Olfaction; Olfactory habituation; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEPERSONALIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LIMBIC PSYCHOTIC TRIGGER REACTION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NONCONVULSIVE BEHAVIORAL SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY HALLUCINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ARSON; BEHAVIOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; LIGHT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ODOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFLEX EPILEPSY; SCHIZOIDISM; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; FIRESETTING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIGHT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; SEIZURES; SMELL; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 15344344768     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.05.013     Document Type: Article

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