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A 53-year-old right-handed woman was admitted to a hospital with a seizure, exhibiting loss of consciousness and paroxysmal myoclonic movement. MRI showed no abnormalities of her brain. Electroencephalography revealed sporadic sharp and slow wave complexes, starting from the right central region.
BACKGROUND
Prolonged use of antipsychotic drugs (AP) with or without sudden withdrawal as well as high dosage of AP (at least 3 months) may result in a variety of movement disorders such as classical tardive dyskinesia (tongue rolling, lip pouting, trunkal choreiform movements), tardive myoclonus
Conversion syndromes are frequent among medically unexplained somatic symptoms in neurology. A careful differential diagnosis must be carried out in a psychiatric consultation service. In a prospective study lasting for over four years 169 patients with pseudoneurological signs of conversion were
Lance-Adams syndrome, described in 1963, is caused by anoxia of central nervous system, generally in the course of primary respiratory failure. It is characterized mainly by action myoclonus, associated cerebellar ataxia and very mild intellectual deficit. Occurrence of Lance-Adams syndrome is rare;