Acute postictal psychosis: a stereo EEG study |
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| Authors: | N K So G Savard F Andermann A Olivier L F Quesney |
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| Institution: | Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. |
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| Abstract: | An acute psychosis characterized by auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions developed in a 19-year-old man with temporal lobe epilepsy after he had a cluster of seizures when antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) had been gradually discontinued. Continuous sterotactic depth and epidural EEG recordings confirmed that this was a postictal rather than an ictal event. Acute postictal psychosis is a self-limited condition phenomenologically distinct from ictal or postictal confusion. |
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| Keywords: | Epilepsy Psychoses Electroencephalography |
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