PMID- 15939437
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050919
LR  - 20161124
IS  - 0022-510X (Print)
IS  - 0022-510X (Linking)
VI  - 234
IP  - 1-2
DP  - 2005 Jul 15
TI  - Frontal nonconvulsive status epilepticus manifesting somatic hallucinations.
PG  - 25-9
AB  - Somatic hallucinations are subjective experience of false, strange sensations of 
      things occurring in or to the body. They can be seen in psychotic disorders, but 
      have not been well described as an ictal psychosis in patients with nonconvulsive 
      status epilepticus (NCSE) of frontal origin. We reported a 69-year-old woman who 
      had NCSE of frontal origin manifesting prolonged somatic hallucinations mimicking 
      a psychiatric disorder and initially treated as such. Ictal EEG revealed the 
      frontal focus and ictal single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) showed 
      the activation, not only in the frontal area but also in the parietal area as the 
      projected regions, both of which might be associated with the development of her 
      symptoms. She also had two generalized tonic-chronic seizures out of psychosis. 
      Her psychosis and ictal rhythmic discharges on EEG ceased with valproate and she 
      has since remained free from the symptoms. The current case suggests that 
      long-lasting somatic hallucinations could be an ictal psychosis in frontal NCSE 
      and thus an EEG study is needed for an early diagnosis and treatment.
FAU - Takaya, Shigetoshi
AU  - Takaya S
AD  - Human Brain Research Center, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, 
      Japan; Kisshoin Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
FAU - Matsumoto, Riki
AU  - Matsumoto R
FAU - Namiki, Chihiro
AU  - Namiki C
FAU - Kiyosu, Hayaki
AU  - Kiyosu H
FAU - Isono, Osamu
AU  - Isono O
FAU - Hashikawa, Kazuo
AU  - Hashikawa K
FAU - Ikeda, Akio
AU  - Ikeda A
FAU - Fukuyama, Hidenao
AU  - Fukuyama H
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Neurol Sci
JT  - Journal of the neurological sciences
JID - 0375403
SB  - IM
CIN - J Neurol Sci. 2014 Feb 15;337(1-2):240-2. PMID: 24300229
MH  - Aged
MH  - Brain Mapping
MH  - Electroencephalography/methods
MH  - Epilepsy, Generalized/diagnostic imaging/*physiopathology
MH  - Female
MH  - Frontal Lobe/diagnostic imaging/*physiopathology
MH  - Hallucinations/diagnostic imaging/*etiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Imaging, Three-Dimensional/methods
MH  - Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon/methods
EDAT- 2005/06/09 09:00
MHDA- 2005/09/20 09:00
CRDT- 2005/06/09 09:00
PHST- 2004/09/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2005/01/03 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2005/02/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2005/06/09 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/09/20 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/06/09 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0022-510X(05)00110-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jns.2005.02.014 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Neurol Sci. 2005 Jul 15;234(1-2):25-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2005.02.014.