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Setsu Nakatani-Enomoto1, Yasuo Terao, Ritsuko Hanajima
1Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, Graduate school of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. setsu-tky@umin.ac.jp
Abstract:
We describe a 33-year-old man with cyclosporine encephalopathy who showed continuous jerking in the left upper limb due to epilepsia partialis continua. Jerk-locked back averaging (JLA) of magnetoencephalogram disclosed a spike preceding the jerk localized at the hand motor area, whereas JLA of electroencephalogram revealed no premyoclonus spikes. The paired-pulse motor cortical transcranial magnetic stimulation revealed motor cortical hyperexcitability, while the paired-pulse somatosensory evoked potential showed no sensory cortical hyperexcitability. The brain MRI showed a high intensity lesion localized at the hand sensory area. These results suggest that the jerks were produced by discharges at the motor cortex probably disinhibited by the sensory cortical lesion.
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