Seizure manifesting as a reaching/grasping movement in a patient with post-traumatic epilepsy

Toru Horinouchi; Kotaro Sakurai; Tsugiko Kurita; Youji Takeda; Yusuke Yoshida; Hisashi Akiyama; Katsuyuki Fukushima; Ichiro Kusumi

doi:10.1002/ccr3.1872

Seizure manifesting as a reaching/grasping movement in a patient with post-traumatic epilepsy

Clin Case Rep. 2018 Oct 17;6(11):2271-2275. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1872. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Authors

Toru Horinouchi¹, Kotaro Sakurai¹, Tsugiko Kurita¹, Youji Takeda¹, Yusuke Yoshida², Hisashi Akiyama³, Katsuyuki Fukushima⁴, Ichiro Kusumi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Neurology Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine Sapporo Japan.
² Department of Psychiatry Hokkaido Prefectural Koyogaoka Hospital Abashiri Japan.
³ Department of Psychiatry National Hospital Organization, Obihiro Hospital Obihiro Japan.
⁴ Fukushima Neuro Clinic Nanae Japan.

Abstract

Electrical stimulation (ES) of the pre-supplementary or cingulate motor area can cause reaching/grasping (R/G) movements with the hand contralateral to the side of the brain receiving the ES. We report this phenomenon occurring in a 23-year-old right-handed man during spontaneous epileptic seizure, which developed after traumatic brain injury.

Keywords: anterior cingulate cortex; long‐term EEG; reaching/grasping movement; seizure video; supplementary motor area.

Publication types

Case Reports