Paper

Palinopsia as an Epileptic Phenomenon
Ch. Lefebre, H.W. Kölmel

Abteilung für Neurologie, Universitätsklinikum-Rudolf-Virchow, Freie Universität Berlin

Address of Corresponding Author

Eur Neurol 1989;29:323-327 (DOI: 10.1159/000116439)

  Key Words

• Palinopsia
• Visual perseveration
• Homonymous hemianopia
• Epileptic visual perseveration

  Abstract

The perseveration or recurrence of images in the visual field after removal of the real stimulus is called 'palinopsia' or 'visual perseveration' which can be split up into three different types according to the latency between the real external stimulus and its apparent recurrence. For a long time it was subject of discussion whether the delusion is a sign of lacking cortical inhibition or of a cortical afterimage or part of an eptileptic seizure. If there are different reasons for the three sorts of visual perseveration has not been answered yet. In our case report, however, it is possible to demonstrate a patient's posttraumatic lateralized long-latency visual perseveration for the first time as a clear-cut focal epileptic seizure which is approved by synchronous temporo-parietal epileptic discharges in the electroencephalogram.

Copyright © 1989 S. Karger AG, Basel

  Author Contacts

Christoph Lefèbre, MD, Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum-Rudolf-Virchow, Standort Charlottenburg, Freie Universität Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, D-1000 Berlin 19

  Article Information

Received: November 28, 1988
Accepted: March 6, 1989
Published online: NIL
Number of Print Pages : 5