Medicine:Orgasmic epilepsy

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Short description: Rare form of epilepsy causing orgasms
Orgasmic epilepsy
Other namesOrgasmic seizures; Orgasmic epileptic seizures; Orgasmic convulsions; Orgasmic auras; Epilepsy with orgasmic seizures
SymptomsAuras with spontaneous orgasms[1][2]
CausesEpilepsy[1][2]
FrequencyRare[2][3]

Orgasmic epilepsy is a rare form of epilepsy that involves auras in which spontaneous orgasms occur.[1][4][2][3] Due to their rarity and sensitive nature, they have mostly been reported as single cases and case series.[2][3][4] A broader category is epilepsy with sexual auras generally.[1] There are similarities and overlap of orgasmic epilepsy with ecstatic epilepsy and certain other forms of epilepsy.[1][4] Orgasmic seizures were first reported in 1960 and a number of additional cases have been reported since then.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Neurology of ecstatic religious and similar experiences: Ecstatic, orgasmic, and musicogenic seizures. Stendhal syndrome and autoscopic phenomena". Neurologia (Engl Ed) 34 (1): 55–61. 2019. doi:10.1016/j.nrl.2016.04.010. PMID 27340019. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Orgasmic aura originates from the right hemisphere". Neurology 58 (2): 302–4. January 2002. doi:10.1212/wnl.58.2.302. PMID 11805263. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Orgasmic aura--a report of seven cases". Seizure 13 (6): 441–444. September 2004. doi:10.1016/j.seizure.2003.09.005. PMID 15276150. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chakravarty, A. (2020). "A Note on Ecstatic and Orgasmic Seizures". MIMICS of Epileptic Seizures. G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Pvt. Limited. pp. 66–74. ISBN 978-93-90020-96-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=FHoxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA66. Retrieved 27 August 2024.