Neonatal glycine encephalopathy is a rare genetic neurometabolic disorder secondary to glycine cleavage system deficiency. Patients typically present with early-onset intractable seizures, status epilepticus and encephalopathy. Seizures control remains challenging in view of their refractoriness to standard anti-seizure medications. Sodium benzoate is commonly used to control the elevated...
We report on the case of an adolescent with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy exhibiting compulsory sporadic voluntary movement. These movements entailed the deliberate act of touching her forehead with her hand and were triggered by a short and indefinable cephalic sensation. Upon inquiry regarding the nature of this movement, the patient reported a sudden perception of a peculiar event localized...
Religious experiences in epilepsy patients have provoked much interest with suggestions that hyperreligiosity is associated with temporal lobe seizures. Extreme varieties of religious behavior may be more frequent in epilepsy patients during ictal activity or during post-ictal psychotic episodes. We report a 75 year-old man with epilepsy who developed a progressive decline in cognition and...
Hypnopompic hypersynchrony is a less recognized benign EEG pattern that is a subset of hypersynchronous patterns. The sleep-related patterns hypnagogic hypersynchrony and hypnopompic hypersynchrony have similar EEG characteristics; the difference is based on their temporal relation to sleep. Hypnagogic hypersynchrony is well described in the literature [1] and seen in stage 1 sleep, but...