Pseudobulbar Palsy and Macrogyria

Abstract

Four patients with medically intractable epilepsy, pseudobulbar palsy and mental retardation and found to have bilateral central macrogyria on CT and MRI are reported from the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, Canada; and the Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul Ramsey Hospital, St. Paul, MN.

Keywords

• minor seizures
• bilateral sylvian
• multiple anticonvulsants