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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EPILEPSY AND ATYPICAL PSYCHOSES
Author(s) -
Okamoto Shigekazu
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1962.tb00669.x
Subject(s) - epilepsy , psychology , electroencephalography , neuroscience , psychiatry , medicine
Summary From the descriptions of our series of follow‐up studies, it may be concluded there is close relationship between atypical psychoses and epilepsy. Further, we knew from the clinico‐physiological view‐point the presence of patients with atypical psychoses who had tetanoid disposition or who showed abnormally low voltage EEG. In these cases, the endogenous psychoses which have close relationship with epilepsy belong to atypical psychoses while the epilepsy in these cases seemed to be attached to functional epilepsy as it showed distinct peculiarities of occasional cramp or reactive attacks. Oppenheim regarding a kind of functional epilepsy which sometimes appears in psychasthenia, names it as “psychasthenischer Krampf”, and Bratz calls the functional epilepsy associated with psychasthenia and neuropathics as “affektepileptischer Anfall”: there inbreeding something related with them with certain connection regarding the problem of atypical psychoses.