Adult onset ictal aphasia with epileptic discharges in Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas

Aphasia can sometimes present with epileptic seizures, especially in temporal lobe epilepsy affecting the dominant hemisphere. Child-onset epilepsy with aphasia is known as Landau-Kleffner Syndrome (Caraballo et al., 2014), whereas adult-onset epilepsy presenting with aphasia is quite rare, as aphasia more often presents with stroke in adult patients. Here we describe a patient with adult-onset epilepsy exhibiting ictal aphasia, and whose epileptic discharges were detected by magnetoencephalography (MEG) in the motor and sensory speech areas.

Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - November 19, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Shin-ichi Tokushige, Yasuo Terao, Naohiro Uchio, Shoji Tsuji, Masato Yumoto Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research