Embarrassment as a Seizure Aura
Embarrassment as the aura of a complex partial seizure
Orrin Devinsky, David A. Hafler and Jonathan D. Victor
Neurology 32, 1284-1285
Abstract
A man with a grade II astrocytoma in the medial frontal lobe exhibited complex partial seizures, with the aura being a feeling of extreme embarrassment. This previously unreported ictus suggests that an electric discharge in the prefrontal cortex may produce the opposite effect of prefrontal lesions, in which there is a lack of insight and absence of the capacity for embarrassment
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