Contralateral smile and laughter, but no mirth, induced by electrical stimulation of the cingulate cortex

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 440-443

  Sperli, Francesca ^a,b   Spinelli, Laurent ^a   Pollo, Claudio ^a   Seeck, Margitta ^a,c  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c Laboratory of Presurgical Epilepsy   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cingulate gyrus; Corticography; Electrical stimulation; Epilepsy; Laughter

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYSTEINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LAUGHTER; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEIZURES; SMILING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33645289398     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00442.x     Document Type: Article

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