Does head‐turning during a seizure have lateralizing or localizing significance?
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 34 (7), 884
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.34.7.884
Abstract
Forced lateralized head-turning, occurring as the first clinical sign in 106 epileptic seizures in 43 patients, was recorded on videotape simultaneously with the EEG. Forty-five ictal EEGs were obtained with stereotaxically implanted intracerebral electrodes. Forced head-turning was seen with seizures that had a frontal, temporal, unilateral diffuse, or a generalized onset in the EEG. Ipsilateral was as common as contralateral head-turning in all groups, including the seizures with frontal lobe onset. Initial head-turning in a seizure has no localizing or lateralizing significance.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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