Pathogenesis of Psychosis in Epilepsy. The “Seesaw” Theory: Myth or Reality?

Schizophrenia-like psychoses of epilepsy

“…The ancient Greeks later attributed epilepsy to divine intervention and called it "the Sacred Disease". However, Hippocrates pronounced otherwise, suggesting that epilepsy was a disorder of the brain, as was madness [2], although it was not until the nineteenth century that our notion of epilepsy was first defined scientifically by Hughlings Jackson [3].…”