Epilepsy and non - arganic non - affective psychosis

Background This study tests the It is commonly accepted that people with hypothesis that epilepsy increases the risk epilepsy have more psychiatric problems than normal individuals (Trimble, 1991). of developing xhizophrenia and other The vathogeneric hv~othesis of a relation. .. , . non-affective functional psychoses usinga ship between epilepsy and chronic kschizonationwide sample of people with epilepsy. phrenia-like' psychosis was introduced on the basis of uncontrolled, highly selected Method A record linkage study case series (Slater et a/, 1963). Slatcr et al's between a sample from the National study had a profound impact. stimulating