[A further role on the structuro-functional organization of the vegetatovisceral manifestations of epilepsy (diencephalic epilepsy?)].

The authors present the results of examining 138 patients whose disease could be classed with the so-called "diencephalic epilepsy" proceeding from the structure of the paroxysmal vegetovisceral manifestations, the degree of the neuroendocrinal syndromes, the complicate scope of the organic and functional anomalies, and hydrocephalus of the IIId ventricle. Stereoelectroencephalographic examinations made in the course of spontaneous vegetovisceral and polymorph seizures have shown that the aura correlates with the reaction of desynchronization in the deep and cortical structures of the brain; the specific manifestations of the seizures are combined with epileptic discharges in the limbic and neocortical structures and absence of the discharges in the thalamus and hypothalamus. It has been shown that the limbic system, the neocortical and truncal divisions of the brain take part in the structural and functional organization of the vegetovisceral paroxysms. It is supposed that the hypothalamus plays a non-specific role in the realization of the vegetovisceral paroxysms. On the basis of recognizing the system organization of epileptic process the authors cast doubt on the term "diencephalic epilepsy".