Recognition of the Various Expressions of Anxiety, Psychosis, and Aggression in Epilepsy

摘要: Anxiety, psychosis, and aggressive behavior are among the frequent comorbid psychiatric disorders identified in patients with epilepsy. Often clinical manifestations of these vary according to their temporal relation relative seizure occurrence. Thus, postictal symptoms anxiety or psychosis differ severity, duration, response treatment interictal symptomatology. Psychiatric symptomatology epilepsy can appear concurrently disorder improve remit on abolition epileptic activity. We refer as paraictal phenomena. Such is case disturbances associated gelastic seizures caused by hypothalamic hamartomas. In this article, three studies presented illustrate importance distinguishing anxiety, aggression, respect