TEMPORAL-LOBE EPILEPSY WITH PSYCHOSENSORY AND GUSTATORY ATTACKS

A variety of temporal epilepsy that manifested by paroxysms in the for m of psychosensory and gustatory ones is described. A 20-year-old man was plased under observation. Since 14 years of age he demonstrated at tack-like conditions with a sensation of the pushing apart and swellin g in the head, of an increase of the head size, and unpleasant sickly sweet taste in the mouth. The attacks were accompanied by anxiety and general weakness. Neurological examination revealed left-handed hemisy mptomatology, EEG demonstrated activity prevailing in the occipitotemp oral leads on the right. The neuropsychological findings attested to t he impairment of the structures of the right temporal lobe. Analysis o f the clinical manifestations of epilepsy, of the neurological finding s, and the neuropsychologist's conclusion made it possible to suggest the site of the epileptic focus in the field of the hippocamp on the r ight.