For epileptologists today, frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) remains the most challenging of all the epilepsies, both in terms of understanding how seizures are organized and how they should be treated. This is very evident in comparison to the now well-defined syndrome of mesial temporal lobe ...
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Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy(ADNFLE) is a rare epileptic disorder that causes frequent violent seizures during sleep. These seizures often involve complex motor movements, such as hand clenching, arm raising/lowering, and knee bending. Vocalizations such as shouting, moaning, or...
Summary: Nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is a condition primarily characterized by seizures occurring exclusively or predominantly during sleep, the semiology of which suggest a frontal lobe origin and, more specifically, the involvement of the orbitofrontal or mesial frontal regions. It is...
epilepsyseizuresmoodbehaviorneuropsychiatryFrontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) can masquerade as a primary psychiatric condition, be misdiagnosed in-lieu of a true psychiatric disorder, or may be comorbid with psychiatric illness. To (1) qualitatively review psychiatric manifestations of FLE and (2) to ...
This chapter discusses the relationship among interictal, preictal, and ictal activities in the physiology of frontal lobe seizures. The systematic comparison of depth and surface electroencephalography (EEG) (SEEG) in recording the interictal, preictal, and ictal activity helps in identifying differe...
Frontal lobe epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizures arising from the frontal lobes. Frequently, seizure types are simple partial or complex partial, often with secondary generalization.
Conclusions Ictal body turning along the horizontal body axis and semiology with physiological movement are not only prevalent semiology items of mesial frontal lobe epilepsy but they distinguish mesial frontal from lateral frontal and orbitofrontal seizures. Semiology of seizures of frontal lobe origin rem...
Frontal lobe complex partial seizures (FLCPS) may be difficult to distinguish clinically from psychogenic seizures (PS). We analyzed videotaped seizures of two patients with proven FLCPS and two patients whose PS resembled the FLCPS. Special attention was directed to the overall duration of attacks...
symptoms but also because of its overlap with other clinical entities including psychiatric disorders. The differential diagnosis of many frontal lobe seizures including nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) includes nonneurogenic seizures, panic disorder, and nonrapid eye movements (NREM) sleep ...