PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS IN A CLINIC FOR CONVULSIVE DISORDERS
THEODORE T. STONE M. D., PH. D.1, and
ALEX J. ARIEFF M. D.1
1 The Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Northwestern University Medical School.
Twenty-six cases of mental aberration occurring in a clinic for convulsive disorders are herewith presented. The causes of the psychiatric difficulties are as follows: idiosyncrasy to bromides; alcoholic intoxication; status epilepticus; psychic equivalents; encephalitis; trauma to the head; brain tumor; tuberous sclerosis; schizophrenia; mental depressions; emotional instability and an unclassified case of psychosis.
