Acute postictal psychosis: a stereo EEG study.
An acute psychosis characterized by auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions developed in a 19-year-old man with temporal lobe epilepsy after he had a cluster of seizures when antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) had been gradually discontinued. Continuous sterotactic depth and epidural EEG recordings confirmed that this was a postictal rather than an ictal event. Acute postictal psychosis is a self-limited condition phenomenologically distinct from ictal or postictal confusion.
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Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
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D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques