Seizure-free after surgery in a patient with non-lesional startle epilepsy: A case report

• Published in: Epilepsy & behavior Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 700 - 703
• Main Authors: Sun, Yan-Ping, Zhu, Hong-Wei, Zhang, Shou-Wen, Huang, Zhao-Yang, Li, Li-Ping, Qiao, Liang, Du, Wei, Wang, Yu-Ping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.12.2012
• Subjects: Adolescent; Brain - pathology; Brain - physiopathology; Brain - surgery; Electrocorticograph; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy, Reflex - pathology; Epilepsy, Reflex - physiopathology; Epilepsy, Reflex - surgery; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Motor Cortex - physiopathology; Motor Cortex - surgery; Neuroimaging; Neurology; Reflex, Startle; Startle epilepsy; Supplementary sensorimotor area; Electrocorticograph; Supplementary sensorimotor area; Startle epilepsy
• ISSN: 1525-5050; 1525-5069
• DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.09.001

Abstract We present the case of a patient with startle epilepsy provoked by auditory, somatosensory and visual stimuli during video-electrocorticography (ECoG) recording. Ictal ECoG of all types of seizures triggered by the three kinds of stimuli showed that seizure onset originated from the left supplementary sensorimotor area (SSMA). The patient has been seizure‐free after the cortex around the left SSMA only had been resected. Therefore, we speculate that left SSMA is the epileptogenic zone of startle epilepsy in this patient and perhaps the primary cortex to modulate the startle reflex in healthy persons.