Ictal and Peri-Ictal Psychopathology

Patients with epilepsy may experience psychiatric symptoms preceding the seizure (pre-ictal), following the seizure (post-ictal), independently of seizure occurrence (interictal), or as an expression of the seizure (ictal). Compared to interictal, peri-ictal psychiatric symptoms are less investigated and recognized. However, they contribute substantially to disability and distress among people with epilepsy. The relationship between interictal and periictal symptoms is still largely unknown but it seems that they are intimately related in epilepsy. Greater appreciation and understanding of the periictal period is clinically important, providing a model for understanding basic mechanisms underlying mood and thought disorders and the substrates of cognition, volition, emotion, and consciousness. The present paper is aimed at reviewing major psychiatric symptoms that may occur around the ictus with special attention to clinical descriptions and relationships with interictal psychopathology.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Behavioural Neurology

• Publication date

  2011-03-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3233/BEN-2011-0314PMID 21447894PMCID 5377957
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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