title: Psychiatric presentation of epilepsia cursiva.
abstract: Coarse brain disease can first present as a behavioural or psychiatric disorder. Partial seizures with complex symptomatology (psychomotor or temporal lobe epilepsy) may offer particular difficulties in differential diagnosis from the "functional psychoses". The authors report a case of "running epilepsy" (epilepsia cursiva), that first presented as a behavioural problem, and review the literature on this rare form of psychomotor epilepsy.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000654:Amobarbital; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012419:Runaway Behavior
chemical_list: D000654:Amobarbital