Ictal religious speech in non-dominant temporal lobe epilepsy: three cases

ABSTRACT

Ictal religious speech and gestures, rare ictal semiological findings, sign the epileptic focus at the non-dominant temporal lobe in the literature. Therefore, we aim to present non-dominant temporal lobe semiological findings, including ictal praying and religious gestures in three cases.

KEYWORDS:

• Automatism
• ictal praying
• temporal lobe epilepsy
• religious automatism
• verbal automatism

Acknowledgements

We thank to our technical staff of epilepsy and sleep center in University of Dokuz Eylul.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Authors’ contributions

DMD, PT, SF, İÖ, and BB managed the patients. DMD, İÖ, and BB performed the analysis, wrote, and reviewed the manuscript. DMD, PT, SF, İÖ, and BB approved the final version of the manuscript.

Data availability statement

The data supporting this article’s findings are available on request from the corresponding author, DMD. However, the data are not publicly available due to their containing information that could compromise the privacy of research participants.