Seizures: motor presentations
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Seizures: motor presentations. Pedalling, Gyrations, Dancing, Running: cursive, Undressing, Fencer’s posture. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Limb and body movements
- Pedalling
- Gyrations
- Dancing
- Running: cursive
- Undressing
- Fencer’s posture
- Incoordination
- Dystonic posturing
- Hemiballism movements
- Toe dorsiflexion
- Asymmetric tonic limb posturing (ATLP, figure-of-4 sign)
- Pseudo figure-of-4 sign: this is false localising ATLP
- Pelvic thrusting: with frontal and temporal lobe seizures
- Ictal body turning: versive or non-versive
- Ictal turning prone (ITP)
- Bed leaving
- Belly dancing (belly dancer’s syndrome)
- Abdominal clonic jerks
Buccofacial movements
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Head movements
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Hand postures and movements
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Religious movements
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References
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- Fisher RS, Cross JH, D'Souza C, et al. Instruction manual for the ILAE 2017 operational classification of seizure types. Epilepsia 2017; 58:531-542.
- Dobesberger J, Walser G, Embacher N, et al. Gyratory seizures revisited: a video-EEG study. Neurology 2005; 64:1884-1887.
- Bagla R, Khoury JS, Skidmore C. Teaching video neuroimages: dancing epilepsy. Neurology 2009; 72:e114.
- Neilson J, Snyder T, Pugh J, Wheatley M, Tang-Wai R. Gelastic seizures with dancing arising from the anterior prefrontal cortex. Epileptic Disord 2014; 16:233-237.
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