Positive syndrome of schizophrenia and epilepsy.
An analysis is carried out of a set of psychic phenomena appearing always in the same way: an experience suddenly invades the consciousness, unfolding automatically and with great intensity. This psychic automatism, of which the patient is a passive observer, is accompanied by an overwhelming feeling of strangeness. Our hypothesis is that these phenomena are the expression of partial seizures with a psychic content. A comparative study is then made of the phenomenology of these partial seizures with a psychic content, on the one hand, and of that of positive syndrome of schizophrenia, on the other. It reveals a wealth of clinical information indicating an overlap between the two conditions. This inclines us to postulate of an existence of shared etiopathogenic mechanisms for both pathologies.
Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Servicio de Psiquiatria, Zaragoza, Spain.
Iria
I
Alvarez-Silva
Sergio
S
Alvarez-Silva
Javier
J
Alvarez-Rodriguez
D004827:Epilepsy / Q000145:classification* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013577:Syndrome; D009626:Terminology as Topic