Focal epilepsy and psychosis symptoms: A case report and review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Epilepsy is still a real mental health problem; although most epilepsies are curable, their psychopathological consequences are often significant and complex to manage. In this framework, the association of epilepsy with psychotic disorders has long been known.

Case presentation

To discuss the links between epilepsy and psychosis, we report the observation of a 52-year-old man, treated for complex focal epilepsy, admitted to a psychiatric department for auditory and visual hallucinations and a behavioural disorder not improved by antiepileptic treatment alone or an antipsychotic alone.

Discussion

Psychotic symptoms in epilepsy can be part of intercritical, post-critical or alternative psychoses. In our patient's case, the psychotic symptoms were post-critic

SUBMITTER: Jaballah F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9793167 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature