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Stereotyped stepping associated with lesions in the bilateral medial frontoparietal cortices
S Sato1, T Hashimoto, A Nakamura
1Third Department of Medicine (Neurology), Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Neurology
|August 29, 2001
Abstract:
The location of higher locomotion centers in humans is not well defined. The authors describe stereotyped bipedal stepping movement in a patient with meningoencephalitis with necrotic lesions localized mainly in the bilateral medial frontoparietal cortices. The patient intermittently showed stereotyped stepping in the supine position during a stuporous state. The stereotyped stepping in this patient offers clinical evidence indicating the presence of a higher locomotion center in medial frontoparietal cortex.