Sunday, July 17, 2016

Cerebellar Dysfunction and Ataxia in Patients with Epilepsy: Coincidence, Consequence, or Cause?

Filip P, Bareš M, Brázdil M.; Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov. 2016; 6. doi: 10.7916/D8KH0NBT

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Other spinocerebellar ataxias might also be accompanied by epilepsy, although this is probably a coincidence. There was a case report of mesiotemporal epilepsy in an SCA13 patient and one of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy in an SCA17 patient. There was also a description of epilepsy in patients with Friedreich ataxia. A list of all possible conditions exceeds the scope of this article.