Endocrine abnormalities in human temporal lobe epilepsy.

摘要: Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy secrete ACTH at higher rates and in greater amounts than normal subjects. Temporal lobectomy restores secretion to rates. The is independent of anticonvulsant drug effect seizure frequency. Electrical stimulation medial structures patients affected a manner consistent the hypothesis that regulated by tonic inhibition. A defect excitatory and/or inhibitory components this regulatory process appears exist epilepsy.