RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Does head‐turning during a seizure have lateralizing or localizing significance?
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 884
OP 884
DO 10.1212/WNL.34.7.884
VO 34
IS 7
A1 Ochs, Rachel
A1 Gloor, Pierre
A1 Quesney, Felipe
A1 Ives, John
A1 Olivier, André
YR 1984
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/34/7/884.abstract
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.