Neck atonia with a focal stimulation©\induced seizure arising from the SMA: Pathophysiological considerations

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• 作者：Stjepana Kovac ; Parashkev Nachev ; Roman Rodionov ; Catherine Scott ; Andrew W. McEvoy ; Nathan Toms ; Tim Wehner ; John S. Duncan ; Beate Diehl
• 关键词：Supplementary sensorimotor area ; Negative motor area ; Atonia ; Frontal lobe ; Cortical stimulation mapping ; Epilepsy surgery ; Epilepsy ; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizure
• 刊名：Epilepsy & Behavior
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：August, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：24
• 期：4
• 页码：503-506
• 全文大小：630 K

文摘

A 28-year-old patient with pharmacoresistant non-lesional right frontal epilepsy underwent extra©\operative intracranial EEG recordings and electrical cortical stimulation (ECS) to map eloquent cortex. Right supplementary motor area (SMA) ECS induced a brief seizure with habitual symptoms involving neck tingling followed by asymmetric tonic posturing. An additional feature was neck atonia. During atonia and sensory aura, discharges were seen in the mesial frontal electrodes and precentral gyrus. Besides motor signs, atonia, although rare and not described in the neck muscles, and sensations have been reported with SMA stimulation. The mechanisms underlying neck atonia in seizures arising from the SMA can be explained by supplementary negative motor area (SNMA) - though this was not mapped in electrodes overlying the ictal onset zone in our patient - or primary sensorimotor cortex activation through rapid propagation. Given the broad spectrum of signs elicited by SMA stimulation and rapid spread of seizures arising from the SMA, caution should be taken to not diagnose these as non-epileptic, as had previously occurred in this patient.