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Epilepsy
Frandita Ivana Tanisiwa
(2013-83-037)
• Insular cortex epilepsy is an under-recognized,
localizaton-related syndrome.
• The presence of this conditon could account for the
surgery treatment failure seen in a porton of patents
with temporal epilepsy, as well as a porton of those with
frontal and parietal lobe epilepsy.
Abstract
• Epileptic symptoms resulting from the stimulation of the insular
cortex were similar to those of temporal epilepsy to the extent that it
was dificult distinguish between them.
• Surgery treatment: 70% (satisfactory benefits), 20% (suboptimal
benefits), 10% (no benefits).
• The insular lobe belongs to the limbic system and as the fifth lobe of
the brain.
• The insular cortex; such as memory, drive, and emotion, as well
as higher autonomic control of gustation and olfactory sensation.
• Routine scalp electroencephalograph (EEG), which is considered the
most useful and valuable approach in epilepsy diagnosis, plays
a less important role in insular epilepsy.
Introduction
• Vicq (1786) “the circle round located between lateral
fssure and corpus striatum”
• Island of Reil; The insula is a highly developed structure,
is entrely encased within the brain at the depth of the
Sylvian fssure and is covered by the frontal, parietal and
temporal opercula.
Conclusions