Mother and daughter with adolescent-onset severe frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy

Abstract

ABSTRACT Familial cases of early-onset prominent frontal lobe dysfunction associated with epilepsy have not been reported to date. We report a mother and her only daughter with incapacitating behavioral manifestations of frontal lobe dysfunction and epilepsy of variable severity. The possibility of a hitherto undescribed genetic condition is discussed.

Keywords

• frontal lobe
• genetics
• behavioral
• neuropsychiatry
• epilepsies
• partial
• heredity