Characteristics of postictal psychosis in a psychiatric center |
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Authors: | Hsing-Cheng Liu MD Chin-Hung Chen MD I-Jin Yeh MD And Sing-Ming Sung MD |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taiwan. apple@mail.tcpc.gov.tw |
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Abstract: | The clinical characteristics of 12 cases of postictal psychosis treated at Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taipei, Taiwan, were retrospectively reviewed. Increased seizure frequency, especially with generalized tonic-clonic seizures, was the major risk factor predisposing to postictal psychosis. The psychotic symptoms were variable with delusions and/or hallucinations. These patients showed a much longer history of epilepsy (21.9 +/- 10.7 years) prior to the development of postictal psychosis than has been previously reported. The possible mechanisms in the pathophysiology of psychosis in epileptics were discussed. |
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Keywords: | epilepsy postictal psychosis psychosis |
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