title: Historical perspectives in epileptic psychosis in Japan.
abstract: It was as long ago as 1908 when the first study of epileptic psychosis appeared from Japan. Major literatures since that time with regard to psychoses in patients with epilepsy in Japan are reviewed. The history of epileptic psychoses could be divided into five eras according to the main interests in that period: (i) dawn of the history of epileptic psychoses; (ii) the early era; (iii) the era of periodic psychoses; (iv) the middle era; and (v) the present era. The main topics in each era are described and re-evaluated herein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, National Center Hospital for Mental, Nervous and Muscular Disorders, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan.
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authors.lastname: Onuma
mesh_terms: D004827:Epilepsy / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000266:history*