Seizure manifesting as a reaching/grasping movement in a patient with post-traumatic epilepsy.
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SUBMITTER: Horinouchi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6230673 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
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Seizure manifesting as a reaching/grasping movement in a patient with post-traumatic epilepsy.
Horinouchi Toru T Sakurai Kotaro K Kurita Tsugiko T Takeda Youji Y Yoshida Yusuke Y Akiyama Hisashi H Fukushima Katsuyuki K Kusumi Ichiro I
Clinical case reports 20181017 11
Electrical stimulation (ES) of the pre-supplementary or cingulate motor area can cause reaching/grasping (R/G) movements with the hand contralateral to the side of the brain receiving the ES. We report this phenomenon occurring in a 23-year-old right-handed man during spontaneous epileptic seizure, which developed after traumatic brain injury. ...[more]
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