Open AccessPostictal Psychosis: Common, Dangerous, and Treatable
Author(s) -
Devinsky Orrin
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
epilepsy currents
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.415
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1535-7511
pISSN - 1535-7597
DOI - 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.00227.x
Subject(s) - irritability , medicine , psychosis , psychiatry , disturbance (geology) , medical emergency , cognition , paleontology , biology
“Occasionally, after a fit, or, more frequently, after a series of fits, an attack of mental disturbance may come on which lasts for several days. It may be simply a demented state, or there may be hallucinations, with irritability and even violence ( 1 ).”