HYSTERO-EPILEPSY IN A CHILD.

A Case of Hystero-Epilepsy

symptoms; (2) on the varying interpretation physicians have placed on those symptoms. These remarks refer exclusively to the physical phenomena. There was nothing in the mental symptoms calling for any special notice. The subject was an unmarried man, aged 31, who had been farming in the Colonies for some time past. Family History.?His father suffered from queer kind of seizures, in which he tu...

'Chest epilepsy' in a child.

Pain is a most unusual manifestation of epilepsy, and it is rarer still for chest pain to be the primary manifestation of a seizure disorder. We report here a 6 year old boy with epileptic chest pain--'chest epilepsy'--an entity not previously described in children.

Life threatening epilepsy in a child.

Epilepsy in a child with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.

INTRODUCTION Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a rare chromosomal disorder characterized by facial dismorphy, multiple congenital anomalies, delayed psychomotor development and pharmaco-resistant epilepsy. CASE OUTLINE We present a 5-year-old girl with severe delay in growth and development, microcephaly, mild facial dismorphy and epilepsy. The pregnancy was complicated by intrauterine growth...

Sudden death in a child with epilepsy: potential cerebellar mechanisms?

Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder in humans. People with epilepsy are more likely to die prematurely than those without epilepsy, with the most common epilepsy-related category of death being sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The central mechanisms underlying the fatal process remain unclear, but cardiac and respiratory mechanisms appear to be involved. Recently, cere...