title: [The diagnosis of temporal epilepsy in child psychiatry: a report of 7 cases].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pédopsychiatrie de l'Hôpital Razi, Rue des Orangers, la Manouba, Tunisie.
authors.forename: Soumeyya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Halayem-Dhouib
authors.forename: Zeineb
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Abbès
authors.forename: Asma
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bouden
authors.forename: Sami
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Othman
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Halayem
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology