Paroxysmal Movement Disorders
Introduction Print Section Listen Paroxysmal movement disorders may be mistaken as seizure activity due to similar clinical characteristics and often overlapping treatment strategies. This chapter reviews the paroxysmal movement disorders,…
Sleep Disorders
Introduction Print Section Listen The accurate diagnosis of events occurring during sleep requires knowledge of normal and abnormal sleep, skills in recording specialized forms of polysomnography, and experience in interpreting…
Panic Spells
Introduction Print Section Listen The case described above illustrates the common confusion between panic attacks resulting from a panic disorder and ictal fear or ictal panic, which is the expression…
Dissociative Spells
Introduction Print Section Listen A large proportion of patients undergoing video-electroencephalography monitoring (VEM) do not have epileptiform electroencephalographic (EEG) changes during their spells, and approximately one third of patients admitted…
Psychogenic Nonepileptic Spells
Introduction Print Section Listen Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) is the final diagnosis in approximately 30% of patients presenting to specialized epilepsy centers for intractable epilepsy.1–3 PNES specifically related panic and…
Primary Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures
Introduction Print Section Listen Generalized tonic-clonic (GTC) seizures may be either primary or secondary in onset.1 Although the older terms grand mal, convulsion, and fit are still widely used by…
Fundamentals of EEG
Introduction Print Section Listen This chapter provides a brief introduction to fundamental aspects of electroencephalography (EEG), with a special emphasis on aspects of EEG that are particularly relevant to video-EEG…
Complex Partial Seizures of Extratemporal Origin
Introduction Print Section Listen Many seizures arise from frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes, and these are collectively referred to as extratemporal seizures. They are commonly encountered, and merit recognition because…
Complex Partial Seizures of Temporal Lobe Origin
Introduction Print Section Listen Reading no further than the title of this chapter has already presented you with a conundrum: how exactly does one define “complex partial seizures of temporal…
