Seizures after jogging

RK Simpson, RG Grossman - New England …, 1989 - … -staging.elsevierpure.com
Abstract To the Editor: We have recently treated three healthy adults who presented with
generalized seizures shortly after jogging. Each person had previously been asymptomatic,
and each had a normal neurologic examination after the seizure. In all three patients
computed tomographic imaging revealed small frontal cortical lesions: an arteriovenous
malformation, an astrocytoma, and a cyst. Their location is of interest, because injury to the
frontal cortex, which includes the motor cortex, is more likely to cause seizures than injury to …