Acute postictal psychosis: a stereo EEG study

Epilepsia. 1990 Mar-Apr;31(2):188-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.1990.tb06305.x.

Abstract

An acute psychosis characterized by auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions developed in a 19-year-old man with temporal lobe epilepsy after he had a cluster of seizures when antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) had been gradually discontinued. Continuous sterotactic depth and epidural EEG recordings confirmed that this was a postictal rather than an ictal event. Acute postictal psychosis is a self-limited condition phenomenologically distinct from ictal or postictal confusion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Electroencephalography* / methods
  • Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / complications*
  • Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
  • Hallucinations / etiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Psychotic Disorders / etiology*
  • Psychotic Disorders / physiopathology
  • Stereotaxic Techniques