title: Traumatic dissociation, epileptic-like phenomena, and schizophrenia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  According to recent evidence, trauma and stress are important etiological factors in pathogenesis of schizophrenia. However, the hypothetical influence of traumatic stress on epileptic-like (or kindling) phenomena in schizophrenia is at this time unclear.
  
  
  METHODS
  In order to discover the influence of trauma, 82 patients with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and 50 healthy controls were assessed for symptoms of dissociation, traumatic stress and psycho-sensory symptoms of epileptic origin.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have found significant traumatization and dissociation in patients who met the cut-off score for psychosensory epileptic-like symptoms and also significant correlations among these measures have been found.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These data suggest a certain role of epileptic-like phenomena in dissociative states in schizophrenia and are in accordance with rare intracranial EEG findings which suggest a certain role of epileptiform events in schizophrenia.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research of Traumatic Stress, and Department of Psychiatry, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. petrbob@netscape.net
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bob
authors.forename: Katerina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Glaslova
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Susta
authors.forename: Denisa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jasova
authors.forename: Jiri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Raboch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007696:Kindling, Neurologic / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology