Abstract
Six cases showing 14 and 6 per second positive spikes of “thalamic and hypothalamic epilepsy” named by Gibbs, F.A. and Gibbs, E.L. were reported. These were two cases of autonomic epilepsies, one “Tic”, one showing symptoms of abdominal epilepsy and child-shizophrenia, one narcolepsy and one case with obsessive compulsive symptoms who had received electric shock treatment ten times.
The age of patients ranged from 10 to 17 years and in all cases 14 and 6 per second positive spikes appeared in sleep recordings.
The site of occurence was on both hemispheres with bilateral synchrony in two cases (the case with obsessive compulsive symptoms and that of child-shizophrenia), and unilateral on the right hemisphere in others.
Two cases of autonomic seizures were improved markedly by administration of diphenylhydantoin, tridione etc., but only partial alleviation was obtainded in narcolepsy and in the case showing obsessive compulsive symptoms.
The anticonvulsant drugs were ineffective in “Tic” and child-shizophrenia.
