Psychogenic gelastic seizures in a patient with hypothalamic hamartoma

Timothy Scarella; Micheal P Macken; Elizabeth Erway Gerard; Stephan U Schuele

doi:10.1684/epd.2012.0509

Psychogenic gelastic seizures in a patient with hypothalamic hamartoma

Timothy Scarella^*, Micheal P Macken, Elizabeth Erway Gerard, Stephan U Schuele

^*Corresponding author for this work

Neurology

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Abstract

Gelastic seizures are classically associated with hypothalamic hamartoma. The most effective treatment for gelastic epilepsy is surgery, although confirming that a hypothalamic hamartoma is an epileptic lesion prior to surgical intervention is challenging. Here, we report the case of a patient with a hypothalamic hamartoma who was diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic gelastic seizures using video-EEG monitoring.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	187-189
Number of pages	3
Journal	Epileptic Disorders
Volume	14
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1684/epd.2012.0509
State	Published - Jun 1 2012

Keywords

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

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Clinical Neurology
Neurology

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