What symptom is mimetic automatism?

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Mimetic automatism can be seen in fear, happiness, anger, thinking and other emotional states, expressions and body movements. It is a clinical manifestation of automatism. About 75% of patients have buccal and lingual movements, and about 50% have facial or neck movements, which can be secondary to generalization. What are the symptoms of mimetic automatism?

What symptom is mimetic automatism?

Mimetic automatism is often caused by localized lesions in the cortex, and the different symptoms are determined by the location of the lesions. The most common is temporal lobe epilepsy. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the result of brain dysfunction, often with disturbance of consciousness, more common in complex partial seizures. Hallucination refers to the changes of vision, hearing, taste, sense of space and object imaging without any external changes. The attack of this type is characterized by conscious disturbance, which is manifested by more complex symptoms, such as disturbance of consciousness and mental symptoms, on the basis of sensory and motor symptoms. These symptoms can appear alone or successively, or spread to form a large attack and terminate.

Language barrier, partial aphasia or repeated language; Memory impairment: a sense of knowing or not knowing, a feeling of not experiencing familiar things, or a quick recollection of things experienced in the past; Recognition obstacles include dream like state, distortion of time perception, unreal sense and separation state; Affective disorder is characterized by very pleasant or unpleasant feelings, strong depression with inferiority or abandonment; Illusion is manifested in the change of size, distance and appearance of conscious objects

Pseudo autonomic motor automatism: also known as semi purposive automatism, it is seen in frontal lobe epileptic seizure period. It is common in violent swing, rolling and running like movements, with a certain rhythm. It needs to be differentiated from hysteria clinically. 7. Sexual automatism: it is characterized by sexual excitement and movement, which is common in male frontal lobe epilepsy. According to the typical clinical characteristics and EEG focal discharge, head CT or MRI examination should be performed routinely.

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. In general, patients with primary epilepsy can be considered to stop taking drugs only after 3-5 years of complete control and EEG is normal or epileptic wave disappears. To maintain the dosage of drugs, we should follow the individualized situation, that is, it varies from person to person, and explore the effective dose of the minimum dose.