منابع مشابه
Epilepsy and non - arganic non - affective psychosis
Background This study tests the It is commonly accepted that people with hypothesis that epilepsy increases the risk epilepsy have more psychiatric problems than normal individuals (Trimble, 1991). of developing xhizophrenia and other The vathogeneric hv~othesis of a relation. .. , . non-affective functional psychoses usinga ship between epilepsy and chronic kschizonationwide sample of people w...
متن کاملTransient sensory, cognitive and affective phenomena in affective illness. A comparison with complex partial epilepsy.
Behavioural changes have often been noted in patients with epilepsy. This study investigated the converse phenomenon--the occurrence of transient sensory, cognitive and affective changes resembling those described by epileptics, in affectively ill patients. Forty-four patients with affective illness, 37 with complex partial seizures, and 30 hypertensive controls were interviewed to determine th...
متن کاملKindling: separate vs. shared mechanisms in affective disorders and epilepsy.
Kindling is discussed in relation to affective illness as a nonhomologous model, which shares the feature of increasing illness severity and evolution over time following repeated exposures to certain forms of stimulation. This progressive aspect of kindling has proven useful in the study of approaches to pharmacotherapeutics, mechanisms and characteristics of drug tolerance, and, most recently...
متن کاملAffective aggression in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: a quantitative MRI study of the amygdala.
Recurrent episodes with interictal affective aggression are a rare but well-recognized problem in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. They are referred to as episodic dyscontrol or, more precisely, as intermittent explosive disorder (IED). The amygdala play a crucial role in the affective evaluation of multimodal sensory input and the neurobiological mediation of aggressive behaviour. With hi...
متن کاملTemporal lobe epilepsy and affective disorders: the role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex
OBJECTIVE Reduced deactivation within the default mode network (DMN) is common in individuals with primary affective disorders relative to healthy volunteers (HVs). It is unknown whether similar network abnormalities are present in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients with a history of affective psychopathology. METHODS 17 TLE patients with a lifetime affective diagnosis, 31 TLE patients wit...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.16.1.25