Eating-like automatism

Introduction Eating-like auto-sickness: manifests in eating or tasting movements, such as licking lips, licking your tongue, and clearing your throat, often with a certain degree of rigidity, such as running, chewing, swallowing, or nasal spray. Eating-type autopsy is a clinical manifestation that mimics autonomic symptoms. Imitative autonomic syndrome: visible emotional expressions and physical movements such as horror, happiness, anger and thought. It is a clinical manifestation of automatic disease. Complex partial seizures show more adaptive adaptive unconscious activities with forgetting, called automatism. About 75% of patients have buccal tongue movements, and about 50% have facial or neck movements, which can be secondary to generalization.

Cause

It is more common in localized lesions due to cortex, and the various symptoms at the time of onset are determined by the location of the lesion. Most common in temporal lobe epilepsy.

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According to typical clinical features and EEG focal discharge, head CT or MRI should be performed routinely.

Differential diagnosis

1 imitative automatic syndrome: visible emotional state expressions and physical movements such as horror, happiness, anger and thinking.

2 Gesture Automated Symptoms: Simple gestures such as wiping face, licking your mouth, licking your hands, grasping objects and genitals, making puzzles or comprehension-like movements; complex gestures such as buttoning or undressing, flipping pockets, whisking, finishing clothes Carrying furniture, smashing beds or doing some professional activities.

3 vocabulary automatic syndrome: muttering, reciting, accompanied by vocal or laughter, common repetitive phrases or sentences, need to be identified with the pronunciation of seizures.

4 ambulatory automatic disease: walking to a target, encounter obstacles can be avoided, and sometimes even riding a bicycle or driving through the downtown, the attack lasts for a few seconds to several minutes, continuous episodes can last from several hours to several days.

5 pseudo-automatic motor-induced autonomic syndrome: also known as semi-targeted autonomic disease, seen in the frontal lobe seizures, common severe swing, rolling, running-like movements, a certain rhythm, clinical need to identify with snoring.

6 sexual automatism: sexual excitability and movement, common in male frontal lobe epilepsy.

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