Heautoscopy, epilepsy, and suicide.
Heautoscopy (the doppelgänger experience), epilepsy, and suicide is a triad primarily known from literary accounts. This paper reports a patient with complex partial seizures who tried to commit suicide during the experience of heautoscopy.
Brugger
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Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland.
Agosti
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Regard
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Wieser
H G
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Landis
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D000328:Adult; D017029:Epilepsy, Complex Partial / Q000523:psychology*; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*