Vigabatrin and psychosis.
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Epilepsy and psychosis
This study reports the difficulties in the treatment and follow-up of patients with epilepsy and psychotic disorder and the orientation of neurologists about lifelong chronic effect of epilepsy towards psychiatric morbidity. Six patients (2 females, 4 males) complaining of generalized epilepsy, where the disease had started in the adulthood, for more than ten years, and suffered more than ten s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.54.5.435