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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.3.711

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.

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