Hemifacial spasm is defined as unilateral, involuntary, irregular clonic or tonic movement of
muscles innervated by the seventh cranial nerve. Most frequently attributed to vascular loop …

Background and aim Reading-induced seizures are presumed to be rare phenomena
attributed to an epilepsy syndrome not clearly belonging to either focal or generalized …

Purpose: Perioral reflex myoclonias (PORM) are obvious, frequent, but often unobserved
focal seizures in different epileptic syndromes and the leading seizure type in reading …

Background Reading epilepsy is a rare form of epilepsy, classified among idiopathic, age-
and localisation-related (partial) epilepsies as a reflex epilepsy syndrome. Seizures usually …

Myoclonus is a motor symptom commonly associated with reflex seizures in people with
idiopathic generalized epilepsies. The most frequently observed triggers of myoclonus are …

Background Speech-induced action myoclonus may occur as a component of a generalized
myoclonus syndrome. However, it may also present in isolation, or with a paucity of other …

Writing epilepsy is a rare reflex syndrome in which seizures are triggered by writing. We
describe a 33-year-old, right-handed man, with a history of juvenile absence epilepsy in …

Résumé Les myoclonies sont des mouvements involontaires brefs et soudains, à l'origine
de secousses musculaires, pouvant être d'origine pathologique ou physiologique. En raison …

We describe an unusual form of facial myoclonus activated by speech in 3 patients with
different underlying neurological diseases and present the electrophysiological …

Reading epilepsy is a rare form of epilepsy, classified among idiopathic, age-and
localisation-related (partial) epilepsies as a reflex epilepsy syndrome. Seizures usually …