Psychiatric aspects of epilepsy

Scott, D. F.

doi:10.1136/pgmj.44.510.319

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1972

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“…It is well recognized that epileptic patients may attempt suicide (Kessel, 1965) since they often have associated psychiatric disturbance (Scott, 1968), but in both of the above patients the possibilities of psychiatric instability and of deliberate drug overdose were discounted by the parents at the time of admission.…”

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Acute barbiturate poisoning in young epileptics

Hancock¹

1974

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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Summary Two young epileptic patients presenting in coma with focal neurological signs were found to be suffering from unsuspected acute barbiturate overdose. There had been strenuous denial of any possibility of psychiatric disturbance or of self-poisoning in the history obtained from their parents at the time of admission. The importance of excluding deliberate drug overdose in any young epileptic patient presenting with prolonged or atypical coma is re-emphasized.

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