SOME AUTONOMIC CONCOMITANTS OF ICTAL AUTOMATISM

Ictal whistling: a rare automatism during temporal lobe seizures.

One of the most unusual ictal automatisms reported is whistling. Two patients, both males, are described who had prominent whistling as a component of their complex partial seizures. Both had temporal lobe epilepsy with resolution of seizures after a temporal lobectomy. Ictal whistling appears to localize to the temporal lobe but may not be useful for lateralization.

Simple autonomic seizures and ictal enuresis

Human micturition is physiologically controlled via a complex and finely tuned network of cortical and subcortical regions, hitherto not fully understood. We report the case of a 42-year-old man with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) and post-traumatic epilepsy. Ictal enuresis was the only manifestation of the de novo post-traumatic simple autonomic seizures. Source analysis of the ictal epilep...

Some Observations on Cardiac Automatism in Certain Animals

Certain aspects of the acetylcholine hypothesis of cardiac automaticity have been tested in vitro with spontaneously beating cardiac tissue from rabbits, rats, dams, and hagfish. The beat of atria from rabbits and rats may be depressed or excited by acetylcholine, depending upon the state of the tissue. Proguanil and cocaine inhibition of the beat in the rat may be antagonized by acetylcholine ...

Neurological concomitants of uveitis.

AIM To describe the prevalence and types of neurological disease that occur in association with uveitis. METHODS Retrospective review of medical records of patients attending a tertiary referral uveitis service over a 15 year period. RESULTS Of 1450 patients with uveitis, 115 (7.9%) had neurological disease that was considered to be causally related to the eye inflammation. The most frequen...

Biologic concomitants of alcoholism.