conclusions the psychotic symptoms due to temporal lobe epilepsy can be resolved with lamotrigine administration. introduction visual illusions and hallucinations may accompany a wide variety of disorders with many various etiologies; therefore, they are nonspecific phenomena. in a partial seizure, a localized hyper synchronous neuronal discharge evolving into a partial seizure affecting a part...

objective: suicide is one of the most important early causes of death in psychotic patients. the main object of this research was to determine the relationship between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and psychotic major depressive disorder (mdd) with suicidal history and risk. methods: sixty five patients with schizophrenia compared to 65 patients with psychotic mdd in a cross s...

BACKGROUND Research is scarce with regard to the role of psychotic and schizotypal symptoms in treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The aim of the current study was to investigate the occurrence and specificity of psychotic and schizotypal symptoms among non-psychotic OCD patients, and to examine whether such symptoms was associated with response to exposure and response prevention...

Tardive dystonia is characterized by sustained, generally slow involuntary twisting movements. It is estimated to occur at a frequency of 1% to 4% among patients who are taking an antipsychotic agent. Unlike the first generation antipsychotics, the second generation antipsychotics are less likely to cause neuroleptic-induced movement disorder. For aripiprazole, only a few cases have been report...

Of 69 patients admitted to a hospital because of suicide risk, 30 (44 percent) were completely free of suicidal ideation 24 hours after admission. Scores on the Scale for Suicide Ideation at the time of admission distinguished patients who continued to have suicidal ideation 24 hours later (the sustained-ideation group) from those who did not (the transient-ideation group). Patients in the tran...

Isotretinoin is an effective treatment for severe and resistant forms of acne. It has proven potential inducing dose-dependent psychiatric side effects, especially in some vulnerable groups patients. Objective: The aim the present article to report a case 22-year-old woman with family history schizophrenia who was diagnosed After unsuccessful antibiotic acne, panic disorder accompanied by depre...

Introducción: Las personas con epilepsia son especialmente susceptibles a diferentes tipos de comorbilidades, entre las que destacan los episodios psicóticos. Este artículo revisión pretende actualizar profesionales la salud en el reconocimiento psicosis se presentan pacientes epilepsia, sus características clínicas y su manejo terapéutico, fin asegurar diagnósticos abordajes precoces.