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Letter: Late onset of schizophrenia and temporal lobe epilepsy: coincidence or causal?
✍ Scribed by Yvonne Ha; Laura Bach
- Book ID
- 101289009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
Dear Editor
We report the case of a female patient with chronic schizophrenia who developed right-sided temporal lobe epilepsy for the ®rst time at the age of 73. When unusual behaviour was noted by her brother, it was initially attributed to a deterioration in her psychosis. When the behavioural symptoms persisted despite increased doses of neuroleptic, further investigations revealed right-sided temporal lobe epilepsy. Anticonvulsant treatment was eective in controlling her behaviour. Evidence for an association between psychotic symptomatology and the lateralization of temporal lobe epileptic foci is discussed.