Embarrassment as the aura of a complex partial seizure

Neurology. 1982 Nov;32(11):1284-5. doi: 10.1212/wnl.32.11.1284.

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 an absence of the capacity for embarrassment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Affective Symptoms / physiopathology*
  • Astrocytoma / complications
  • Brain Neoplasms / complications
  • Frontal Lobe
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Seizures / etiology
  • Seizures / physiopathology*