title: "Le grand mal intellectuel" by Jules Falret (1861), the first complete description of postictal psychosis.
abstract: This paper presents the first complete description of postictal psychosis, made by the French psychiatrist Jules Falret. This description, written in 1861, was the first to fulfill modern diagnostic criteria. We will examine why this syndrome, well defined in the 19th century, was forgotten for over a century.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurologie & Neurophysiologie Clinique, INSERM U930, CHU Bretonneau, Tours, France. Electronic address: bertrand.detoffol@univ-tours.fr.
authors.forename: Bertrand
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: de Toffol
mesh_terms: D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000150:complications / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history*
keywords: Epilepsy; Postictal psychosis