Video game-related seizures: a report on 10 patients and a review of the literature.

Objective: To further describe the features, postulated pathophysiology, treatment, and outcome of seizures occurring while playing or watching video games (video game-related seizures (VGRS)).

Design: We evaluated retrospectively 10 patients with VGRS seen by us and reviewed 25 reported cases.

Results: The 35 patients ranged in age from 1 to 36 years (mean: 13.

Electrocorticography in patients with medically intractable temporal lobe seizures. II. Quantification of epileptiform discharges following successive stages of resective surgery.

We quantified retrospectively the interictal epileptiform discharges (EDs) detected visually in the electrocorticograms (ECoGs) of 42 patients undergoing successive stages of anterior temporal lobectomy for medically intractable temporal lobe seizures (TLS). Following first resection sparing the hippocampus (H) and the parahippocampal gyrus (PHG), EDs were recorded on both structures in all patients and by far exceeded in amount those on residual lateral infratemporal and lateral temporal cortices. Frequently, EDs occurred apparently simultaneously but with opposite polarities on the H and the PHG, but more complex relationships were also evident in most individuals.