PEDIATRICS Vol. 42 No. 4 October 1968, pp. 720-722
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Biological Factors in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, by Christopher Ounsted, Janet Lindsay, and Ronald Norman. London: Published by the Spastics Society Medical Education and Information Unit in association with William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd. (Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 22), 1966, 135 pp., $3.00

Frederic A. Gibbs M.D.1

1 Chicago, Illinois

In Gilbert Glaser's "Foreword" to this book, the term "temporal lobe seizures" is taken to mean "psychomotor seizures." The authors also apparently consider these terms synonymous, for on page 2 they cite a case which meets their criteria for the diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy. The patient had an aura of abdominal discomfort, a succession of autonomic signs, semi-purposeful psychomotor movements, visual hallucinations, and a spike focus in the anterior temporal area. By considering temporal lobe epilepsy and anterior temporal lobe or psychomotor epilepsy as identical, they follow a usage that is almost universal in Europe and one that is also common in the United States.