Psychiatric Disorders Seen in Correlation with Epileptic Seizures

Amitabh Saha

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Psychiatric Disorders Seen in Correlation with Epileptic Seizures

Amitabh Saha

Published in American Journal of Life Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Received: 9 January 2014 Accepted: 5 May 2014 Published: 10 May 2014

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Abstract

Psychiatric morbidity in cases of epilepsy are frequently seen in our clinical practice. Epileptic seizures and subsequent sequelae leave behind triggers for development of psychiatric disorders. Among the commonly seen psychiatric disorders are depression, psychosis, personality disorders and various other phenomenology’s which is cited in this article.

Published in	American Journal of Life Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajls.20140202.22
Page(s)	108-116
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Epilepsy, Psychosis, Epileptic Personality, Depression, Catastrophic Reaction, Psychiatric Morbidity

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Department of Psychiatry, Command hospital, Pune- 40, India

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