Abnormal self-location and vestibular vertigo in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy

Christophe Lopez (1) , Lukas Heydrich , Margitta Seeck (2, 3) , Olaf Blanke (1, 4)

1 LNCO - Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience
2 Department of Neurology [Genève]
3 University of Geneva Medical School
4 Department of Neurology

We describe the case of a 33-year-old than with complex partial seizures characterized by the feeling of being projected outside his body, including dissociation of ``mind and self from body'' (disembodiment), followed by vestibular vertigo due to right frontal lobe epilepsy caused by an oligodendroglioma We distinguish the patient's ictal symptoms with respect to autoscopic phenomena (out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, autoscopic hallucinations) and vestibular phenomena of epileptic origin, and we discuss their neutal origin with respect to vestibular and multisensory cortical mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness in temporoparietal and frontal cortex. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc All tights reserved

Domaines: Neurosciences [q-bio.NC]

Christophe Lopez, Lukas Heydrich, Margitta Seeck, Olaf Blanke. Abnormal self-location and vestibular vertigo in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 2010, 17 (2), pp.289-292. ⟨10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.12.016⟩. ⟨hal-01449864⟩