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As part of her seizure disorder, a young woman with temporal lobe epilepsy had prolonged attacks of isolated fear associated electrographically with right temporal lobe status epilepticus. The attacks stopped after right temporal lobectomy. Fear by itself, a rare manifestation of complex partial seizures, probably occurs when the abnormal discharges are confined to the anterior temporal region.
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McLachlan et al. (1980) studied this question.
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