ABSTRACT
Penfield and Erickson (1941) reported that increased intracranial pressure (ICP) did not cause seizures but could be the consequence of seizures. In a pilot study of 17 patients, it was demonstrated that acute increased ICP was not associated with precipitation of subclinical seizures as monitored by 30 minutes of electroencephalogram (EEG) activity following the rise (McNamara et al. 2003). In preparation for this chapter, a PUBMED literature search did not find epilepsy or seizures associated with the syndrome of benign intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri), except in a few cases with a coexisting condition which in all likelihood was the cause of the seizures.
