New-onset musicogenic epilepsy after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

Epileptic Disord. 2020 Apr 1;22(2):202-206. doi: 10.1684/epd.2020.1144.

Abstract

Musicogenic epilepsy is a reflex epilepsy provoked by listening to or playing music. The epileptogenic network involves temporal regions, usually mesiotemporal structures. We present a 31-year-old female patient who experienced musicogenic seizures after a right temporal lobectomy with amygdalohippocampectomy that was performed in order to treat preexisting right mesio-temporal epilepsy.

Keywords: epilepsy surgery; musicogenic seizures; reflex epilepsy; temporal lobe resection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anterior Temporal Lobectomy / adverse effects*
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy, Reflex / diagnostic imaging
  • Epilepsy, Reflex / etiology*
  • Epilepsy, Reflex / physiopathology
  • Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Music*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography