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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 112, No. 3

Article | September 01, 1955

EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN EPILEPSY General Clinical and Neurological Considerations

WILLIAM F. CAVENESS

Am J Psychiatry 1955;112:190-193.

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Assistant Professor of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Associate Attending Neurologist, Neurological Institute, Presbyterian Hospital.

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Two cases are presented to illustrate the importance of emotional and psychological factors in epilepsy. Attention is directed to the personality changes that arise as a reaction to seizures. It is noted that emotional stress may act as a precipitant to individual seizures. Finally, it is pointed out that elements from past experience, of particular emotional significance, may be incorporated into the clinical pattern of seizures that arise from a discharging lesion in the temporal lobe of the brain.

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