Dancing with a seizure, a case report

BMC Neurol. 2017 Jan 25;17(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s12883-017-0797-2.

Abstract

Background: Dancing is a very rare seizure semiology, and has only few case reports so far. Moreover, no case regarded as dancing with both description and video was presented.

Case presentation: A 42-year-old woman with medical intractable epilepsy showed a typical semiology of right temporal lobe epilepsy: right hand automatism and ictal speech. The following semiology, appeared during ictal and post-ictal stage, was complex, rhythmical and sequential movement. It was enough to be called dancing.

Conclusions: We hereby report the most plausible dancing in the ictal and post-ictal state, documented by simultaneous video and electroencephalography.

Keywords: Dancing; Seizure; Semiology.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Automatism / physiopathology*
  • Dancing / physiology*
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / physiopathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged