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The clinical signs of posterior cortex dysfunction are, due to their paucity and subtlety, very often ignored as non-specific during clinical evaluation of non-convulsive status epilepticus. Therefore, focal non-convulsive status epilepticus emerging from the posterior cortex, and especially the parietal lobes, can be fairly under-recognised. We report a 66-year-old patient with focal non-convulsive status epilepticus presenting as isolated Bálint-like syndrome, successfully treated to full clinical and electrophysiological recovery. The diagnostic and pathophysiological features are discussed. Focal non-convulsive status epilepticus can be associated with negative phenomena such as neuropsychological deficits mimicking those detected more often in degenerative and vascular brain diseases.
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Ristić, A.J., Marjanović, I., Brajković, L. et al. Bálint-like syndrome as an unusual representation of non-convulsive status epilepticus. Epileptic Disord. 14, 80–84 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1684/epd.2012.0492
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