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The thalamocortical network appears to play a pivotal role in ictogenesis [1], and seizure-induced MRI lesions may involve the thalamus [2,3]. Cerebral lesions are usually considered epileptogenic only when the cortex is involved. Seizures induced by thalamic lesions, however, have been seldom reported. Rare reports describe thalamic lesions leading to refractory focal epilepsy with spike-wave discharges lateralized to the side of the thalamic lesions, [4] clinical features compatible with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), [5,6] and acute symptomatic generalized tonic-clonic seizures [7] and convulsive status epilepticus (SE) [8].