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Psychosis in Epilepsy Patients
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
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Introduction
Psychosis in patients with epilepsy was known in antiquity and was already described in detail in the nineteenth century.
This kind of psychosis can be categorized in relations to seizures: preictal psychosis (before the seizures), during them (ictal) or after the seizures (postictal psychosis)
Aims
Through several cases of patients that were treated in our department with the diagnosis of psychosis, previously or during the treatment diagnosed with epilepsy, we analyse the characteristics and diagnostic criteria of these pathologies.
Methods
Systematic literature review in up-to-date and Pubmed, looking for reviews on psychosis and epilepsy, in international scientific journals of neurology and psychiatry.
Conclusions
Being able to recognize this several types of psychotic states associated with epilepsy has a clinic and prognosis utility, because made important differences in treatment and in the evolution of the illness.
Disclosure of interest
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
- Type
- e-Poster Viewing: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. s799
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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