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Intractable reflex audiogenic seizures in Aicardi syndrome
- Source :
- Brain and Development. 29:243-246
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2007.
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Abstract
- Aicardi syndrome (AS) is a rare disorder which includes the triad of total or partial agenesis of the corpus callosum, infantile spasms, and chorioretinal anomalies. Seizures and electroencephalogram findings observed in AS are polymorphic with both focal and generalized seizures. We first report on a patient affected by AS who presented with reflex audiogenic seizures specifically triggered by the starting tune of a popular television news. No other type of stimuli, either simple or complex, were able to precipitate the seizures in the patient. The severe cortical-subcortical lesions commonly observed in AS are associated with hyperexcitability of the cortices and may well account for the broad electroclinical patterns noted in this group of patients. From our report, the context of these patterns should be extended to include reflex audiogenic seizures.
- Subjects :
- reflex seizures
startle epilepsy
Adolescent
Context (language use)
Corpus callosum
Epilepsy, Reflex
Corpus Callosum
Aicardi syndrome
audiogenic epilepsy
Developmental Neuroscience
medicine
Humans
brain malformation
Partial agenesis
Patient affected
Infant, Newborn
Electroencephalography
Choroid Diseases
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Audiogenic epilepsy
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Startle epilepsy
Reflex
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Psychology
Spasms, Infantile
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03877604
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Brain and Development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....990455002e9aea355ddadf2ba67a36c2