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Focal sexual automatism seizure

MedGen UID:
1713163
•Concept ID:
C5397910
•
Disease or Syndrome
HPO: HP:0032905

Definition

A type of focal automatism seizure characterized by involuntary sexual behavior at onset. [from HPO]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVFocal sexual automatism seizure

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Complex sexual behaviors during sleep as a manifestation of epilepsy: a case series.
Voges BR, Schmitt FC, House PM, Stodieck SR, Schenck CH
Sleep 2019 Mar 1;42(3) doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsy233. PMID: 30476248
Genital and sexual manifestations in drug-resistant partial epilepsy.
Mascia A, Di Gennaro G, Esposito V, Grammaldo LG, Meldolesi GN, Giampà T, Sebastiano F, Falco C, Onorati P, Manfredi M, Cantore G, Quarato PP
Seizure 2005 Mar;14(2):133-8. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2004.12.002. PMID: 15694568
Genital automatisms: a video-EEG study in patients with medically refractory seizures.
Dobesberger J, Walser G, Unterberger I, Embacher N, Luef G, Bauer G, Benke T, Bartha L, Ulmer H, Ortler M, Trinka E
Epilepsia 2004 Jul;45(7):777-80. doi: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.44003.x. PMID: 15230701
Genital automatisms in complex partial seizures.
Leutmezer F, Serles W, Bacher J, Gröppel G, Pataraia E, Aull S, Olbrich A, Czech T, Baumgartner C
Neurology 1999 Apr 12;52(6):1188-91. doi: 10.1212/wnl.52.6.1188. PMID: 10214741

Diagnosis

Complex sexual behaviors during sleep as a manifestation of epilepsy: a case series.
Voges BR, Schmitt FC, House PM, Stodieck SR, Schenck CH
Sleep 2019 Mar 1;42(3) doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsy233. PMID: 30476248
Genital and sexual manifestations in drug-resistant partial epilepsy.
Mascia A, Di Gennaro G, Esposito V, Grammaldo LG, Meldolesi GN, Giampà T, Sebastiano F, Falco C, Onorati P, Manfredi M, Cantore G, Quarato PP
Seizure 2005 Mar;14(2):133-8. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2004.12.002. PMID: 15694568
Genital automatisms: a video-EEG study in patients with medically refractory seizures.
Dobesberger J, Walser G, Unterberger I, Embacher N, Luef G, Bauer G, Benke T, Bartha L, Ulmer H, Ortler M, Trinka E
Epilepsia 2004 Jul;45(7):777-80. doi: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.44003.x. PMID: 15230701
Autonomic symptoms during epileptic seizures.
Baumgartner C, Lurger S, Leutmezer F
Epileptic Disord 2001 Sep;3(3):103-16. PMID: 11679301
Clinical and EEG features of complex partial seizures of extratemporal origin.
Williamson PD, Spencer SS
Epilepsia 1986;27 Suppl 2:S46-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1986.tb05740.x. PMID: 3720713

Therapy

Genital and sexual manifestations in drug-resistant partial epilepsy.
Mascia A, Di Gennaro G, Esposito V, Grammaldo LG, Meldolesi GN, Giampà T, Sebastiano F, Falco C, Onorati P, Manfredi M, Cantore G, Quarato PP
Seizure 2005 Mar;14(2):133-8. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2004.12.002. PMID: 15694568

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