TY - JOUR
AU - West, Eric
AB - Epilepsy may begin from early infancy to late life; may consist mainly of minor and perhaps atypical clinical attacks or may manifest itself as major convulsions only; can vary in frequency from one fit in a lifetime to almost daily or nightly attacks; and may be associated with underlying single or multiple handicaps or may be without apparent discoverable cause. It is not surprising, therefore, that the psychological concomitants of epilepsy can vary as much as the clinical manifestations, or be added to by social, marital and employment difficulties that the person with epilepsy meets.Epilepsy may sometimes present as an apparent primary psychiatric disturbance, particularly when a typical major motor convulsion has not occurred and when the clinical attack is a minor one of the focal cortical type, the patient typically finding it hard to describe the full experiences in the attack. The expression “petit mal” is used rather loosely by some to cover all types of minor epileptic attack, but in typical childhood petit mal there is no aura, consciousness appears to be briefly lost, and there may be slight clinical changes in the patient, pallor of the face or fluttering of the eyelids accompanying a vacant stare. 
TI - Psychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy
JF - International Journal of Clinical Practice
DO - 10.1111/j.1742-1241.1972.tb05060.x
DA - 1972-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/psychiatric-aspects-of-epilepsy-APrnCJVCeU
SP - 495
EP - 499
VL - 26
IS - 11
DP - DeepDyve
ER -