title: The schizoictal syndrome.
abstract: There are several common denominators of schizophrenia and epilepsy including models of pathogenesis as well as their clinical occurrence mainly referring to schizophrenia-like syndrome in epilepsy or similar clinical entities [1]. Up to now it has not been emphasized that a process of synchronization or desynchronization of neuronal cell structures within the context of neuronal plasticity might be a plausible pathogenetic mechanism of epilepsy as well as schizophrenia. Clinical as well as therapeutical implications of this hypothesis on the basis of scientific evidence are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Biermann
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sperling
mesh_terms: D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*