Neural network underlying ictal humming demonstrated by very early SPECT: a case report

Epilepsia. 2006 Nov;47(11):1968-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00647.x.

Abstract

We report the case of a 49-year-old right-handed woman with brief partial seizures in which the clinical semiology was marked by an early humming automatism. MRI fusion of the registered ictal and interictal single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) substraction exhibited a left neural network involving lateral temporal, inferior frontal, and inferior parietal cortices.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Automatism / diagnosis
  • Automatism / diagnostic imaging*
  • Automatism / physiopathology
  • Brain Mapping / methods
  • Cerebral Cortex / diagnostic imaging*
  • Cerebral Cortex / physiopathology
  • Electroencephalography / statistics & numerical data
  • Epilepsies, Partial / diagnosis
  • Epilepsies, Partial / diagnostic imaging*
  • Epilepsies, Partial / physiopathology
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Frontal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Functional Laterality / physiology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Nerve Net / diagnostic imaging*
  • Nerve Net / physiopathology
  • Parietal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Parietal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Phonation / physiology*
  • Subtraction Technique
  • Temporal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / methods*