[The diagnosis of temporal epilepsy in child psychiatry: a report of 7 cases].
OBJECTIVE
This paper attempts to describe the features of temporal epilepsy in patients firstly considered as having psychiatric disorders.


METHODS
The cases of seven patients followed between 2005 and 2008 at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of Razi Hospital, aged 11 to 15 years are treated.


RESULTS
All the patients showed complex partial seizures, and some of them showed secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Seizures were predominantly made of psychic symptoms (delusion, fear, aggressiveness) but also associated sensory, motor and vegetative features. In 5 cases, epilepsy was idiopathic, and symptomatic of brain anomaly in 2 cases.


CONCLUSIONS
Careful attention must be paid to paroxystic symptoms in children.
Halayem-Dhouib
Soumeyya
S
Service de Pédopsychiatrie de l'Hôpital Razi, Rue des Orangers, la Manouba, Tunisie.
Abbès
Zeineb
Z
Bouden
Asma
A
Othman
Sami
S
Halayem
Mohamed
M
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology