Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. E. Guedj at Service Central de Biophysique et de Médecine Nucléaire, CHU Timone, 264 rue St Pierre, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France. E-mail: [email protected]

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Summary: We report the case of a 49-year-old right-handed woman with brief partial seizures in which the clinical semiology was marked by an early humming automatism. MRI fusion of the registered ictal and interictal single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) substraction exhibited a left neural network involving lateral temporal, inferior frontal, and inferior parietal cortices.

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Neural Network Underlying Ictal Humming Demonstrated by Very Early SPECT: A Case Report

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