TY  - BOOK
AU  - Correia,Pedro
AU  -  Hartl,Elizabeth
AU  -  Noachtar,Soheyl
TI  - Self-stimulation in an adult misdiagnosed with focal epilepsy
PY  - 2019///.
							
N1  - 59
N2  - Self-stimulation is a normal part of development and a common behaviour in children before puberty, but very rare in adults. The stereotyped semiology can sometimes raise the suspicion of epilepsy. We present a 30-year-old patient who came to our epilepsy monitoring unit for differential diagnosis of nocturnal episodes, interpreted elsewhere as hypermotor status epilepticus associated with a known diagnosis of focal epilepsy and septo-optic dysplasia. The recorded events during video-EEG were consistent with psychogenic self-stimulating behaviour, which improved with psychotherapy. Disturbed sexual development with hypopituitarism and poor eyesight, androgen replacement therapy, alongside a protective environment provided by her parents, were the identified predisposing factors for this uncommon entity in an adult. [ Published with video sequence]
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/revue-epileptic-disorders-2019-5-page-463?lang=en
ER  -