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Epilepsy (Diagnostics)

Advances in Frontal Lobe Epilepsy Diagnostics Reviewed

Published in Neurological Diseases and Disorders Weekly, November 15th, 1999

Recent advances in diagnostic technology have the potential to provide precise noninvasive localization of frontal lobe epilepsy.

David Blum of the Barrow Neurological Institute, Arizona, presented an update on diagnostic technology at the 2nd Annual Symposium on Cognitive Disorders, held October 1, 1999, in Phoenix, Arizona.

"Frontal lobe epilepsy is less common than temporal lobe epilepsy among adults, but presents special clinical challenges," wrote Blum in his conference abstract ("Executive Aspects of Frontal Lobe Epilepsy"). "In particular, frontal lobe seizures are often quite bizarre and can easily be confused with pseudo-seizures."

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