Ictal emotional features in pediatric and young adult patients with frontal lobe epilepsy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the localization and lateralization values of ictal emotional features and ictal defensive behaviors in pediatric and young adult patients with frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE).

Methods

Children and young adults with FLE were identified from a single institution's epilepsy surgery database. Two epileptologists determined by consensus the presence of ictal emotional features (positive- smile, laughter, humming, singing; negative- fear, crying, anger, disgust, contempt, sadness) and ictal defensive behaviors (freezing with a fearful facial expression, shielding the face with hands, burying the face in a pillow, or exhibiting hyperkinetic motor behaviors like attempting to escape from bed or resisting restraint) in each patient's first video EEG (vEEG). Historic

SUBMITTER: Tsai MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12514399 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature