Psychiatric presentation of epilepsia cursiva

Coarse brain disease can first present as a behavioural or psychiatric disorder. Partial seizures with complex symptomatology (psychomotor or temporal lobe epilepsy) may offer particular difficulties in differential diagnosis from the "functional psychoses". The authors report a case of &q...

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Published inCanadian Psychiatric Association journal Vol. 23; no. 6; p. 395
Main Authors Shale, J H, Murray, G B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada 01.10.1978
Subjects
Adolescent
Amobarbital
Electroencephalography
Epilepsies, Partial - diagnosis
Epilepsies, Partial - psychology
Humans
Male
Runaway Behavior
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Summary:Coarse brain disease can first present as a behavioural or psychiatric disorder. Partial seizures with complex symptomatology (psychomotor or temporal lobe epilepsy) may offer particular difficulties in differential diagnosis from the "functional psychoses". The authors report a case of "running epilepsy" (epilepsia cursiva), that first presented as a behavioural problem, and review the literature on this rare form of psychomotor epilepsy.
ISSN:0008-4824
DOI:10.1177/070674377802300607