[Partial seizures with affective symptomatology of fear in children]

We describe 11 children suffering from parital seizures with affective symptomatology of fear. These subjects are typified by a very high percentage of pathological antecedents and by a lack of familial epilepsy. In 8 of 11 cases, the seizures with fear symptomatology are associated with localized or unilateral myoclonus. Etiological connection is present in 82% of the subjects. Long-term evolution is differentiated, probably because of the association of motor manifestations and or different form of seizures to this of epilepsy. In addition, the occurrance of temporal right focus on the EEG is very high, which could probably be correlated to the right hemisphere's specialization for the modulation of the affective sphere.