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Mood Disorder, ‘Pre-ictal’ Psychosis and Temporal Lobe Damage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Bankole A. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
Lachlan B. Campbell
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
*
Correspondence

Extract

A patient with an abnormality in the right temporal lobe presented with episodes of mania many years before the clinical manifestation of both a simple partial seizure and complex partial seizures.

Type
Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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