A comparative study of obsessive–compulsive disorder and other psychiatric comorbidities in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and idiopathic generalized epilepsy

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and chronic pain: A retrospective case-controlled study

“…IGE patients were selected for the active control group, rather than patients with partial epilepsy, for three primary reasons: (1) IGE patients represent a more homogeneous group relative to focal epilepsy as they have normal neuroimaging, as well as defined seizure types without focal onsets and potentially associated focal neurologic/neurocognitive deficits, (2) the patient with focal epilepsy may be prone to dysesthesia or pain secondary to the underlying focal dysfunction, and (3) compared with patients with partial epilepsy, IGE patients are less likely to have other comorbidities and medical illnesses predisposing them to pain [10], which could act as confounding factors.…”

Obsessive compulsive symptoms presented during the course of chronic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a case report

“…In epileptic patients, stereotypic or compulsive behaviors may occur in the inter-ictal period (29). A study by Ertekin et al in our country reported that the most common symptoms of OCD in epileptic patients were contamination and order/symmetry (30). Involuntary intrusive thought and compensatory behaviors in our case are considered as OC symptoms as they elicited marked distress and had ego dystonic character.…”

Psychosis and OCD with Urge for Cannibalism: Manifestations of Mesial Temporal Sclerosis

“…Obsessive qualities of washing, symmetry/exactness, and ordering, with a greater preoccupation with certain aspects of religion, have been noted in TLE patients compared with controls or patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy [12]. Ertekin and colleagues found that about 10% of TLE patients had OCD, 24% had subsyndromal OCD [13]. Our patient also had repeated thoughts and urges to eat his son and a controlling compulsion strong enough to diagnose the patient as having comorbid OCD.…”