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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 160235" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>My son has emotional seizures -- rages. We eventually picked up on his auras -- funny feeling in his stomach and suddenly feeling hot are the two most common. When he became aware of those feelings, he would try to calm himself down. It didn't necessarily work to stop them but it did seem that they would be less severe. My friend's aura is paranoia. He knows to go lie down when he feels that everyone around is talking about him. </p><p></p><p>The temporal lobe is responsible for emotions. It's not surprising that a child who had a lesion and surgery on her temporal lobe has emotional problems. Her emotional problems may not be seizure activity, but a result of the lesion or even the surgery.</p><p></p><p>When my son had his emotional seizures, he didn't remember everything that happened even though he appeared totally awake and functioning. What he did remember he usually had misperceived, sometimes to the point that I wondered if he was hallucinating, He also had no sense of time and thought they lasted about 10 minutes. They invariably lasted 45 minutes from start to sleepy period. </p><p></p><p>It is very difficult for EEGs to pick up temporal lobe seizure activity. Neither my son, my friend or I ever had a truly positive EEG but we all have/had TL seizures. It is believed that only 50%; of TLE is picked up with EEGs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 160235, member: 1498"] My son has emotional seizures -- rages. We eventually picked up on his auras -- funny feeling in his stomach and suddenly feeling hot are the two most common. When he became aware of those feelings, he would try to calm himself down. It didn't necessarily work to stop them but it did seem that they would be less severe. My friend's aura is paranoia. He knows to go lie down when he feels that everyone around is talking about him. The temporal lobe is responsible for emotions. It's not surprising that a child who had a lesion and surgery on her temporal lobe has emotional problems. Her emotional problems may not be seizure activity, but a result of the lesion or even the surgery. When my son had his emotional seizures, he didn't remember everything that happened even though he appeared totally awake and functioning. What he did remember he usually had misperceived, sometimes to the point that I wondered if he was hallucinating, He also had no sense of time and thought they lasted about 10 minutes. They invariably lasted 45 minutes from start to sleepy period. It is very difficult for EEGs to pick up temporal lobe seizure activity. Neither my son, my friend or I ever had a truly positive EEG but we all have/had TL seizures. It is believed that only 50%; of TLE is picked up with EEGs. [/QUOTE]
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