A case report on a 71-year-old details how he experienced visual hallucinations as part of occipital lobe seizures and drew an image of red, green and blue shapes with stars.

Flashing lights common trigger for people with juvenile myclonic epilepsy or seizures in the occipital lobe, visual center of the brain ...

However, epileptic seizures can be ''extratemporal,'' or outside of the temporal lobe, originating in the frontal, parietal, or occipital lobes, or even more than one lobe.

Kuzniecky R, Gilliam F, Morawetz R et al. Occipital lobe developmental malformations and epilepsy: clinical spectrum, treatment, and outcome. Epilepsia 1997; 38:175–181.

The dotted line indicates where the entire occipital lobe— which includes the brain's visual processing center—and most of his temporal lobe were removed.

Dr. Zafar: After cardiac arrest, the continuous EEG did not show organized seizures, but the patient had continuous spike-wave discharges predominantly in the occipital lobe.

Reprinted with permission from Bakshi R, et al. Occipital lobe seizures as the major clinical manifestation of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome: magnetic resonance imaging findings.

The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the mammalian brain. The primary visual cortex is Brodmann area 17, located in the interior portion of the occipital lobe at the calcarine ...

AI-based large language models may be feasible to assist clinicians for pre-surgical decision making in those with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, according to a study published in the Journal of ...

Interictal PET images from 38 patients with surgically proven unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy due to pure hippocampal sclerosis referred for pre-surgical PET evaluation of intractable seizure ...