UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Neurology

Title: Recognizing Frontal Lobe Seizures

Keywords: frontal lobe epilepsy, seizures (PubMed Search)

Posted: 3/10/2010 by Aisha Liferidge, MD (Updated: 3/20/2010)
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  •  Focal seizures, such as those due to frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE), are not always easy to recognize and may be erroneously attributed to peripheral or psychiatric sources.
  • FLE seizures may present as abnormal body posturing, sensorimotor tics, and/or other abnormal motor skills, and rarely may be associated with uncontrollable laughing and/or crying.
  • Post-seizure confusion >may occur, but typically does not last as long as the post-ictal states associated with other types of epilepsy.

References

  • "Frontal Lobe Seizures:  symptoms."  Disease and Conditions.  MayoClinic.com.  Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  • Haut S.  "Frontal Lobe Epilepsy."  eMedicine Neurology.  Retrieved 2009-10-17.