The diagnosis of crises originating in the amygdala and hippocampus

Ll. Padró, R. Rovira DOI: https://doi.org/10.33588/rn.26150.981067

OPEN ACCESS

Volumen 26 | Number 150 | Nº of views of the article 9.172 | Nº of PDF downloads 485 | Article publication date 01/02/1998

Download PDF Castellano Citation Search in PubMed

Share in:

Go to another issue

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION Lesions in the hippocampus of some epileptic patients were first described one hundred and seventy years ago. Since then our knowledge of the relationship between epileptic seizures and temporal lobe lesions has greatly improved. DEVELOPMENT. The aim of this paper is to systematize the symptomatology of the hippocampus and amygdala seizures. These seizures may have a great number of different clinical features: special ‘loss’ or ‘impairment of consciousness’, epileptic automatisms and autonomic changes. Moreover, at the beginning of seizures some patients have reported experiences having subjective qualities similar to those experienced in everyday life. P. Gloor named them ‘experiential phenomena’ and subdivided them into affective (eg: fear), perceptual (eg: visual hallucinations) and mnemonic (eg: ‘déjà vu’ illusion). CONCLUSION. It is very important to know the contribution of the hippocampus and the amygdala to the symptomatology of temporal lobe seizures due to the progress of MRI diagnostic possibilities that are improving the surgical outcome

FULL TEXT (solo disponible en lengua castellana / Only available in Spanish)

Acceso directo al último número

Último Podcast

The diagnosis of crises originating in the amygdala and hippocampus

¡CONVIÉRTASE EN USUARIO PREMIUM DE NEUROLOGIA.COM!

Al hacerse premium, está apoyándonos para que Revista de Neurología siga siendo uno de los referentes de habla hispana en la difusión del conocimiento en neurociencias. ¡Gratuita tanto para autores como para todos los usuarios de la web!