‘Eating epilepsy’ — a reappraisal
✍ Scribed by Nimal Senanayake
- Book ID
- 108022782
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 664 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0920-1211
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The term "reflex epilepsy" denotes epilepsies characterized by a specific mode of seizure precipitation. Seventeen patients in whom the act of eating precipitated seizures are described. Interictal EEG showed generalized seizure discharges in three and focal discharges in five patients. In four pati
Eating-related seizures affecting 20 individuals among 59 siblings belonging to nine families are presented. The type of epilepsy was partial in all the affected individuals, and the seizures complex in 15 and simple in 5, secondarily generalized in the majority. The onset of epilepsy, in most cases