Psychogenic gelastic seizures in a patient with hypothalamic hamartoma

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-189

  Scarella, Timothy ^a   Macken, Michael P ^a   Gerard, Elizabeth ^a   Schuele, Stephan U ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gelastic seizure; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Psychogenic non epileptic seizure; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN;

ADULT; ANGER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HETEROTOPIA; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MALE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACHYGYRIA; PARALYSIS; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; STUTTERING; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84864543849     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2012.0509     Document Type: Note

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