Embarrassment as the aura of a complex partial seizure. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A man with a grade II astrocytoma in the medial frontal lobe exhibited complex partial seizures, with the aura being a feeling of extreme embarrassment. This previously unreported ictus suggests that an electric discharge in the prefrontal cortex may produce the opposite effect of prefrontal lesions, in which there is a lack of insight and an absence of the capacity for embarrassment.

publication date

  • November 1, 1982

Research

keywords

  • Affective Symptoms
  • Seizures

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0020436691

PubMed ID

  • 6890164

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 32

issue

  • 11