2003
DOI: 10.1016/s1525-5050(03)00021-0
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Surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy with interictal psychosis: results of six cases

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“…They should not be regarded as contraindications to surgery for patients with medically intractable seizures. However, they do require clinicians' awareness and often need treatment [64,69].…”
Section: Treatment Of Depressionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They should not be regarded as contraindications to surgery for patients with medically intractable seizures. However, they do require clinicians' awareness and often need treatment [64,69].…”
Section: Treatment Of Depressionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…What is difficult clinically is predicting when the associated psychoses will improve with resection of the lesion. 19 If the lesion and symptoms are both acute in onset, the temporal association may support a causal link. However, in a case such as discussed here, in which the psychotic symptoms and tumor are both chronic in nature and time of onset may be variable, subjective, and/or unknown, the conundrum of causality remains.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although there is general agreement that limbic tumors can cause both epilepsy and occasionally psychotic symptoms, whether resection can relieve psychotic symptoms in chronic interictal psychosis is not clear. 19 We report an illustrative case of a patient with longstanding epilepsy, chronic interictal psychosis, and a nonenhancing amygdalar tumor who had immediate improvement of psychotic symptoms after removal of his amygdalar tumor. epilepsy workup and pharmacological seizure treatment at an outside institution, as described below.…”
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“…4 Marchetti et al achieved full remission of post-operative psychosis and depression using 18 bilateral ECT with citalopram in a 36-year-old man who had a right temporal lobectomy for intractable complex partial seizures from right mesial temporal sclerosis. 5…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%