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Original Article

A case of periodic catatonia, due to frontal lobe epilepsy

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Pages 57-59 | Received 25 Oct 1997, Accepted 10 Jan 1998, Published online: 12 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

A case history is presented in which acute periodic catatonia was caused by frontal lobe epilepsy. This manifestation of frontal lobe epilepsy has not, to the authors' knowledge, been described before. The authors mention the problems of diagnosis and discuss a possible pathogenetic mechanism for the capricious presentation in this patient.

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