TY - JOUR
T1 - Seizure-Associated Speech Arrest in Elderly Patients
AU - CASCINO, GREGORY D.
AU - WESTMORELAND, BARBARA F.
AU - SWANSON, THOMAS H.
AU - SHARBROUGH, FRANK W.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - Recurrent, brief episodes of speech arrest associated with bifrontal electroencephalographic seizure activity developed in three ill elderly patients. The seizures ceased after the initiation of antiepileptic drug therapy and the correction of metabolic abnormalities. The cause of the seizure activity remains unknown, but a possible mechanism may be a transient epileptogenic cortical dysfunction that predominantly affects the frontal lobes as a result of concomitant metabolic alterations.
AB - Recurrent, brief episodes of speech arrest associated with bifrontal electroencephalographic seizure activity developed in three ill elderly patients. The seizures ceased after the initiation of antiepileptic drug therapy and the correction of metabolic abnormalities. The cause of the seizure activity remains unknown, but a possible mechanism may be a transient epileptogenic cortical dysfunction that predominantly affects the frontal lobes as a result of concomitant metabolic alterations.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0025-6196(12)61006-4
DO - 10.1016/S0025-6196(12)61006-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 2002683
AN - SCOPUS:0025756957
SN - 0025-6196
VL - 66
SP - 254
EP - 258
JO - Mayo Clinic proceedings
JF - Mayo Clinic proceedings
IS - 3
ER -