title: Lithium therapy in comorbid temporal lobe epilepsy and cycloid psychosis.
abstract: The treatment of post-ictal psychosis has foundered on uncertainty in diagnosis of psychotic phenotypes, and equivocal efficacy of first and second generation antipsychotics. This article presents a case history of comorbid temporal lobe epilepsy and psychosis, suggests the applicability of the continental, cycloid psychosis diagnostic conceptualization to post-ictal psychoses, and demonstrates the efficacy of lithium in their treatment. Clinical studies of comorbidity of epilepsy and psychosis offer great potential as a basis for modelling brain-mind relationships, and neuropsychiatric nosology, pathophysiology and treatment.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry, The Pierre Janet Centre, Melbourne , Australia.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Ipswich Hospital, Queensland , Australia.
authors.forename: Sridhar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kashiviswanath
authors.affiliation: Ipswich Hospital, Queensland , Australia.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Huynh
authors.affiliation: Ipswich Hospital, Queensland , Australia.
authors.forename: Naveen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Allha
authors.affiliation: Ipswich Hospital, Queensland , Australia.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Piaggio
authors.affiliation: Ipswich Hospital, Queensland , Australia.
authors.forename: Saddichha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sahoo
authors.affiliation: Ipswich Hospital, Queensland , Australia.
authors.forename: Ankur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
keywords: Cycloid psychosis; Lithium; Post-itcal psychosis