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Epileptic aura

MedGen UID:: 536056
•Concept ID:: C0234542
•: Sign or Symptom

HPO:	HP:0033348

Definition

An epileptic aura is a purely subjective clinical manifestation of an epileptic seizure. If an epileptic aura is not followed by loss of awareness or propagation to a bilateral tonic-clonic seizure then it is a type of focal aware non-motor seizure. [from HPO]

Term Hierarchy

GTR
MeSH

CClinical test, RResearch test, OOMIM, GGeneReviews, VClinVar

CROGVEpileptic aura

Congenital Systemic Disorder
- Abnormality of the nervous system
  - Abnormal nervous system physiology
    - Seizure
      - Non-motor seizure
        Focal non-motor seizure
        Epileptic aura
        Autonomic epileptic aura
        Partial sensory epilepsy
        Focal sensory seizure with auditory features
        Focal sensory seizure with cephalic sensation
        Focal aware sensory seizure with cephalic sensation
        Focal impaired awareness sensory seizure with cephalic sensation
        Focal sensory seizure with gustatory features
        Focal sensory seizure with hot-cold sensations
        Focal aware sensory seizure with hot-cold sensations
        Focal sensory seizure with somatosensory features
        Focal sensory seizure with vestibular features
        Focal aware sensory seizure with vestibular features
        Focal sensory seizure with visual features
        Psychic epileptic aura
        Affective epileptic aura
        Cognitive epileptic aura
        Focal cognitive seizure with forced thinking
        Focal cognitive seizure with hallucination
        Focal cognitive seizure with illusion
        Experiential epileptic aura

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Visual Phenomena Associated With Migraine and Their Differential Diagnosis.

Eren OE, Wilhelm H, Schankin CJ, Straube A
Dtsch Arztebl Int 2021 Oct 1;118(39):647-653. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0287. PMID: 34636719 Free PMC Article

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Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Stereoelectroencephalography-based research on the value of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy auras: A retrospective single-center study.

You L, Zhang Y, Zhang D, Wang L, Liu X, Peng C, Qi Y, Qian R
Epilepsy Behav 2023 Jan;138:108981. Epub 2022 Dec 5 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2022.108981. PMID: 36470058

Clinical Analysis of Partial Epilepsy with Auras.

Liu Y, Guo XM, Wu X, Li P, Wang WW
Chin Med J (Engl) 2017 Feb 5;130(3):318-322. doi: 10.4103/0366-6999.198918. PMID: 28139515 Free PMC Article

Headache as an Aura of Epilepsy: Video-EEG Monitoring Study.

Kim DW, Sunwoo JS, Lee SK
Headache 2016 Apr;56(4):762-8. Epub 2016 Feb 19 doi: 10.1111/head.12754. PMID: 26893212

Epileptic aura and perception of self-control.

Lohse A, Kjaer TW, Sabers A, Wolf P
Epilepsy Behav 2015 Apr;45:191-4. Epub 2015 Apr 3 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.01.030. PMID: 25843341

Is there anything distinctive about epileptic deja vu?

Warren-Gash C, Zeman A
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2014 Feb;85(2):143-7. Epub 2013 Jan 11 doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2012-303520. PMID: 23315620

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Diagnosis

Visual Phenomena Associated With Migraine and Their Differential Diagnosis.

Eren OE, Wilhelm H, Schankin CJ, Straube A
Dtsch Arztebl Int 2021 Oct 1;118(39):647-653. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0287. PMID: 34636719 Free PMC Article

The localizing value of epileptic auras: pitfalls in semiology and involved networks.

Russo A, Arbune AA, Bansal L, Mindruta I, Gobbi G, Duchowny M
Epileptic Disord 2019 Dec 1;21(6):519-528. doi: 10.1684/epd.2019.1106. PMID: 31823838

The complex interrelations between two paroxysmal disorders: headache and epilepsy.

Cianchetti C, Avanzini G, Dainese F, Guidetti V
Neurol Sci 2017 Jun;38(6):941-948. Epub 2017 Mar 24 doi: 10.1007/s10072-017-2926-5. PMID: 28341968

Epileptic auras: phenomenology and neurophysiology.

Perven G, So NK
Epileptic Disord 2015 Dec;17(4):349-62. doi: 10.1684/epd.2015.0786. PMID: 26643374

Epileptic aura and perception of self-control.

Lohse A, Kjaer TW, Sabers A, Wolf P
Epilepsy Behav 2015 Apr;45:191-4. Epub 2015 Apr 3 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.01.030. PMID: 25843341

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Therapy

Clinical Analysis of Partial Epilepsy with Auras.

Liu Y, Guo XM, Wu X, Li P, Wang WW
Chin Med J (Engl) 2017 Feb 5;130(3):318-322. doi: 10.4103/0366-6999.198918. PMID: 28139515 Free PMC Article

Cerebral polyopia and palinopsia in a patient with occipital lobe epilepsy.

Kataoka H, Ueno S
Epilepsy Behav 2009 Apr;14(4):684-6. Epub 2009 Feb 8 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.01.026. PMID: 19435573

Familial temporal lobe epilepsy as a presenting feature of choreoacanthocytosis.

Al-Asmi A, Jansen AC, Badhwar A, Dubeau F, Tampieri D, Shustik C, Mercho S, Savard G, Dobson-Stone C, Monaco AP, Andermann F, Andermann E
Epilepsia 2005 Aug;46(8):1256-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.65804.x. PMID: 16060937

Loss of the epileptic aura on lamotrigine?

Prescrire Int 1998 Dec;7(38):179. PMID: 10848052

Amnesia of the epileptic aura.

Schulz R, Lüders HO, Noachtar S, May T, Sakamoto A, Holthausen H, Wolf P
Neurology 1995 Feb;45(2):231-5. doi: 10.1212/wnl.45.2.231. PMID: 7854517

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Prognosis

Stereoelectroencephalography-based research on the value of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy auras: A retrospective single-center study.

You L, Zhang Y, Zhang D, Wang L, Liu X, Peng C, Qi Y, Qian R
Epilepsy Behav 2023 Jan;138:108981. Epub 2022 Dec 5 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2022.108981. PMID: 36470058

Visual Phenomena Associated With Migraine and Their Differential Diagnosis.

Eren OE, Wilhelm H, Schankin CJ, Straube A
Dtsch Arztebl Int 2021 Oct 1;118(39):647-653. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0287. PMID: 34636719 Free PMC Article

Clinical, semiological, electroencephalographic, and neuropsychological features of "pure" neocortical temporal lobe epilepsy.

Maizuliana H, Usui N, Terada K, Kondo A, Inoue Y
Epileptic Disord 2020 Feb 1;22(1):55-65. doi: 10.1684/epd.2020.1132. PMID: 32031536

Evaluation of potential auras in generalized epilepsy from EEG signals using deep convolutional neural networks and time-frequency representation.

Polat H, Aluçlu MU, Özerdem MS
Biomed Tech (Berl) 2020 Aug 27;65(4):379-391. doi: 10.1515/bmt-2019-0098. PMID: 31825886

Headache as an Aura of Epilepsy: Video-EEG Monitoring Study.

Kim DW, Sunwoo JS, Lee SK
Headache 2016 Apr;56(4):762-8. Epub 2016 Feb 19 doi: 10.1111/head.12754. PMID: 26893212

See all (6)

Clinical prediction guides

Stereoelectroencephalography-based research on the value of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy auras: A retrospective single-center study.

You L, Zhang Y, Zhang D, Wang L, Liu X, Peng C, Qi Y, Qian R
Epilepsy Behav 2023 Jan;138:108981. Epub 2022 Dec 5 doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2022.108981. PMID: 36470058

Response characteristics of objective perimetry in persons living with epilepsy.

Ali EN, Lueck CJ, Carle CF, Martin KL, Borbelj A, Maddess T
J Neurol Sci 2022 May 15;436:120237. Epub 2022 Mar 25 doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2022.120237. PMID: 35358854

Clinical, semiological, electroencephalographic, and neuropsychological features of "pure" neocortical temporal lobe epilepsy.

Maizuliana H, Usui N, Terada K, Kondo A, Inoue Y
Epileptic Disord 2020 Feb 1;22(1):55-65. doi: 10.1684/epd.2020.1132. PMID: 32031536

Clinical Analysis of Partial Epilepsy with Auras.

Liu Y, Guo XM, Wu X, Li P, Wang WW
Chin Med J (Engl) 2017 Feb 5;130(3):318-322. doi: 10.4103/0366-6999.198918. PMID: 28139515 Free PMC Article

Is there anything distinctive about epileptic deja vu?

Warren-Gash C, Zeman A
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2014 Feb;85(2):143-7. Epub 2013 Jan 11 doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2012-303520. PMID: 23315620

See all (8)

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