PMID- 21543261
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20111011
LR  - 20110613
IS  - 1525-5069 (Electronic)
IS  - 1525-5050 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 2
DP  - 2011 Jun
TI  - Frontal lobe nonconvulsive status epilepticus: a case of epileptic stuttering, 
      aphemia, and aphasia--not a sign of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
PG  - 191-5
LID - 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.03.028 [doi]
AB  - Stuttering is a repetitive, iterative disfluency of speech, and is usually seen 
      as a developmental problem in childhood. Acquired causes in adults include 
      strokes and medications. When stuttering occurs with seizure-like events, it is 
      usually attributed to psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. We describe an elderly 
      man who experienced personality change and bouts of stuttering, followed by 
      anarthria with preserved writing and then aphasia affecting written and uttered 
      language, and ending with confusion. EEG recordings showed nonconvulsive status 
      epilepticus (NCSE) with focality in the left frontal region followed by bifrontal 
      NCSE. This case enlarges our understanding of the behavioral correlates of focal 
      frontal seizures to include simple partial seizures with speech and then language 
      output disturbances (aphemia, then aphasia), progressing to complex partial 
      phenomenology in the setting of frontal NCSE.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Kaplan, Peter W
AU  - Kaplan PW
AD  - Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 
      21224, USA. pkaplan@jhmi.edu
FAU - Stagg, Ryan
AU  - Stagg R
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20110504
PL  - United States
TA  - Epilepsy Behav
JT  - Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
JID - 100892858
SB  - IM
MH  - Aged
MH  - Cognition Disorders/etiology
MH  - Electroencephalography
MH  - Frontal Lobe/*pathology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Neuropsychological Tests
MH  - Speech Disorders/*etiology
MH  - Status Epilepticus/*complications/*pathology
EDAT- 2011/05/06 06:00
MHDA- 2011/10/12 06:00
CRDT- 2011/05/06 06:00
PHST- 2011/03/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/03/20 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/05/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/05/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/10/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1525-5050(11)00133-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.03.028 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Epilepsy Behav. 2011 Jun;21(2):191-5. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.03.028. Epub 2011 
      May 4.