A 44-year-old man undergoing inpatient epilepsy monitoring had a seizure that, on camera, looked more like a routine than a medical event. His right hand began pointing again and again. Within about half a minute of the seizure's start, his body launched into fast, energetic movements that his neurologists described as "pop dancing."
The brain-wave recording running at the same moment tied the dance to the seizure itself. Neurologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas reported the case in Epileptic Disorders, and they flagged a detail that makes it stranger still: music was playing in the background, and the man had never shown dancing-like behavior during a seizure before.
