A patient with epileptic psychosis who had rare acute episodic symptoms

Toru Horinouchi; Yuka Oyanagi; Yuka Umemoto; Yoshiyuki Hosokawa; Hiroshi Honma; Shigehiro Matsubara

doi:10.1016/j.ebcr.2014.07.004

A patient with epileptic psychosis who had rare acute episodic symptoms

Epilepsy Behav Case Rep. 2014 Aug 19:2:133-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ebcr.2014.07.004. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Toru Horinouchi¹, Yuka Oyanagi¹, Yuka Umemoto¹, Yoshiyuki Hosokawa¹, Hiroshi Honma¹, Shigehiro Matsubara¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Obihiro National Hospital, 16, Kita 2-chome, Nishi 18-jo, Obihiro-shi, Hokkaido 080-0048, Japan.

Abstract

This is a case report of a 38-year-old woman with temporal lobe epilepsy and epileptic psychoses. The psychoses consisted of three rare symptoms that were "a distortion in the sense of time," "what should be there disappears," and "the next scene is supposed to be in a particular way." There have been few reports that included these symptoms; therefore, we report the course of this patient in detail.

Keywords: Distortion in the sense of time; Epileptic psychosis; Interictal psychosis; Postictal psychosis; Psychotic symptom; Temporal lobe epilepsy.

Publication types

Case Reports