title: Psychiatric presentations of seizure disorders.
abstract: Seizure disorders may present with signs and symptoms that are usually associated with psychiatric disorders. Physicians must be alert to this possibility; they should use careful history taking in conjunction with EEGs to avoid misdiagnosing certain cases of psychomotor, petit male, and grand mal epilepsy.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000175:diagnosis; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*