Pilomotor seizure When paroxysmal gooseflesh heralds brain tumor

A 68-year-old man complained of acute and recurrent episodes of diffuse gooseflesh variably accompanied by nonfluent aphasia, emotional distress, and focal myoclonic jerks (video 1 on the Neurology ® Web site at www.neurology.org), lasting about 2 minutes and occurring up to every 15 minutes. Contemporaneous EEG recording showed epileptic discharges over left temporal derivations (video 2). MRI showed a left temporal mass extending from the temporal pole to …