PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ochs, Rachel
AU  - Gloor, Pierre
AU  - Quesney, Felipe
AU  - Ives, John
AU  - Olivier, André
TI  - Does head‐turning during a seizure have lateralizing or localizing significance?
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.34.7.884
DP  - 1984 Jul 01
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 884--884
VI  - 34
IP  - 7
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/34/7/884.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/34/7/884.full
SO  - Neurology1984 Jul 01; 34
AB  - 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.