Symptoms of speech automatism?

summary

Automatism refers to some more or less involuntary, meaningless and aimless stereotyped actions in the process of or after epileptic seizures when the patient's consciousness is still in a turbid state, which cannot be recalled after waking up. The clinical manifestations are various, which may be the repetition of the original action, or the new unconscious action, or the reaction to hallucinations and illusions.

Symptoms of speech automatism?

Speech automatism: it is manifested as soliloquy, mostly repeated simple words or incomplete sentences, sometimes difficult to understand the content. Such as "where am I", "I'm afraid" and so on. Most of the lesions were located in the non dominant hemisphere.

Although automatism is the most common in complex partial seizures, it is not unique. Automatism can also occur in other seizures (especially absence seizures) or post seizure disturbance of consciousness (especially tonic clonic seizures). We should pay attention to the differential diagnosis, especially the differential diagnosis of complex partial seizures and absence seizures.

Seizure of epilepsy is more complex, including partial seizures, simple partial seizures (unconsciousness) and complex partial seizures (consciousness), both of which can be secondary to generalized seizures. Most complex partial seizures originate from the medial temporal lobe or limbic system, but they can also originate from other parts such as the frontal lobe.

matters needing attention

Automatism is a mental disorder during epileptic seizures. The treatment of epilepsy is to control the recurrence of antiepileptic drugs for the purpose of symptomatic treatment. At present, there are many kinds of antiepileptic drugs. If the selected drugs are not symptomatic, the curative effect is very little, and sometimes it will aggravate the disease. At present, the most effective way to prevent recurrence is to maintain medication and consolidate the curative effect.