Affective and suicidal symptoms in epileptic prisoners
- 1 February 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 3 (1) , 108-114
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700046390
Abstract
Synopsis Previous writers have suggested a relationship between psychiatric disability and epilepsy, and this is confirmed in the present survey of epileptic prisoners.s The older epileptics, who included four cases of severe cerebral damage, were particularly prone to anxiety and depression. Those with temporal lobe epilepsy had been the most suicidal. The one schizophrenic was a ‘doubtful’ epileptic.Keywords
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- The Schizophrenic-Like Psychoses of Epilepsy [Abridged]Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1962