Abstract
One of the most unusual ictal automatisms reported is whistling. Two patients, both males, are described who had prominent whistling as a component of their complex partial seizures. Both had temporal lobe epilepsy with resolution of seizures after a temporal lobectomy. Ictal whistling appears to localize to the temporal lobe but may not be useful for lateralization.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Anterior Temporal Lobectomy
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Automatism / physiopathology*
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Automatism / surgery
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Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
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Electroencephalography
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Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / physiopathology*
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Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / surgery
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Humans
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Music*
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Phonation / physiology*
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Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Telemetry
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Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
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Video Recording