San-Juan D, Wong-Valenzuela EI

Language: Spanish
References: 6
Page: 74-77
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: comorbidity between psychosis and epilepsy can occur in different ways. The phenomenon of forced normalization (NF) is characterized by the disappearance of epileptiform activity on the electroencephalogram or seizure freedom after treatment in patients with epilepsy accompanied by the appearance of psychotic symptoms. Case presentation: we present a 44-year-old woman with temporal lobe epilepsy, in whom right temporal lobectomy was effective in controlling her seizures, but who developed NF. Conclusion: the incidence of NF is more frequent in temporal lobe epilepsy. Psychotic flares due to NF are mainly managed by modifying the antiseizure treatment that originated it, however, in patients that underwent epilepsy surgery this is not always possible.

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