title: Psychiatric symptoms in temporal lobe epilepsy with left mesial hippocampal sclerosis.
abstract: A 16-year-old woman was referred to us for depression and persistent suicidal and homicidal ideation. From 2010, the patient visited a neurologist due to recurrent grand mal epilepsy, auditory and visual hallucinations, episodic memory loss, and persistent depression. Upon admission, it was revealed through clinical history taking that she had suffered from chronic bullying from same-sex peers and sexual abuse, twice, from an adult male in the neighborhood when she was 10 years old. A brain magnetic resonance imaging study showed left mesial hippocampal sclerosis. The patient exhibited improvement of her psychiatric symptoms after treatment with a combination of fluoxetine (30 mg) and aripiprazole (10 mg). Children and adolescents with epilepsy experience conflicts in the family, challenges at school, stigma, and psychosocial limitations or deprivations due to their comorbid psychiatric symptoms and hence, psychiatric evaluation and early intervention is important when treating these patients.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, Chosun University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors: Hyun
authors: H
authors: Jang
authors: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors: Sang Hoon
authors: SH
authors: Kim
authors: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors: Sang Hag
authors: SH
authors: Park
authors: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors: Il Han
authors: IH
authors: Choo
authors: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
authors: Seung Gon
authors: SG
authors: Kim
keywords: Homicidal ideation; Left mesial hippocampal sclerosis; Suicidal ideation; Temporal lobe epilepsy