http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/0...with-epilepsy/
Interesting, after my wife’s 1996 AVM stroke, she could only sing but not speak as the left temporal side of her brain was damaged by a golf ball sized blood clot.
Four days after the AVM event, the neurosurgeon asked her to sing “Happy Birthday” and she did it without fail. But, she could not vocalize any non-singing speech.
Yes, after 30 days of just saying NO as her only vocal speech [typical woman, eh?], she spontaneously regained her speech, albeit impeded by Expressive Aphaisia even to this day.
BTW, my wife can only employ branded Lamictal. Her current regimen is 2 x 200 mg a day = 600 mg, with no adverse effects. Her last tonic clonic (and only seizure event) was in 2002, with one notable exception.
In 2011 my wife was hospitalized for an unrelated procedure. The hospital provided Lamictal generic. Yup, a day of tonic clonic seizures ensued.
Now my wife takes her bottle of branded Lamictal when she needs to stay in the hospital. The hospital pharmacy certifies the med and we are OK. And, it saves a few "exorbitant" dollars, if we don't use the hospital's generic.