Journal of the Japan Epilepsy Society
Online ISSN : 1347-5509
Print ISSN : 0912-0890
ISSN-L : 0912-0890
Case Reports
Precipitation and Inhibition in Dreamy State of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Akira Sengoku
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2003 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 18-23

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Two patients with dreamy state, who had two methods of precipitation and inhibition for the dreamy state, were observed. The methods of inhibition were successful by thinking the other things in both patients. The methods of precipitation were some different by each patient; one patient precipitated dreamy state by recollecting the previous situations of its occurrence, and another patient precipitated it into loss of consciousness by absorbing self into dreamy state. The detailed investigation of our patients and cases from the literatures concluded that dreamy state is divided into emotion, memory and cognition; at first emotion occurs, and then memory and cognition follows. As neurophysiological hypothesis of cortical network, the discharges of amygdala triggers dreamy state and they spread over hippocampus and neocortex.
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