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Case Reports
. 1988 Feb;51(2):266-8.
doi: 10.1136/jnnp.51.2.266.

Transient feelings of compulsion caused by hemispheric lesions: three cases

C D Ward  1
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Transient feelings of compulsion caused by hemispheric lesions: three cases

C D Ward. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1988 Feb.

Abstract

There was strong evidence of a neurological explanation for transient feelings of compulsion reported by three patients. In at least two cases the mechanism was epileptic. The frontal lobe was implicated in all three. A feeling of compulsion, divorced from action, has rarely if ever been reported in epilepsy or other neurological disorders.

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