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Author Spotlight: Advancing Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery in Children Through Novel Biomarkers and Enhanced Localization
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ONE-TIME PAROXYSM of ARTISTIC TALENT in FOCAL EPILEPSY
Sreya Malladi1, Kenneth Heilman1, Giridhar Kalamangalam1
1Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Abstract:
Despite having unremarkable artistic talent, an 8-year-old male with chronic focal epilepsy from the right lateral frontal lobe drew a complex visual pattern during a 15-minute spell when he looked physically unwell. He underwent epilepsy surgery shortly thereafter and has been seizure-free since. In the ensuing 16 years of follow-up there have been no other such artistic incidents. We deduce that emergence of paroxysmal de novo artistic ability in our patient was caused by seizure discharge disinhibiting the ipsilateral parietal cortex and/or transient ictal engagement of distant salience and default mode sites.
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