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Affective and suicidal symptoms in epileptic prisoners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

John Gunn
John Gunn
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From the Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London
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Synopsis

Previous writers have suggested a relationship between psychiatric disability and epilepsy, and this is confirmed in the present survey of epileptic prisoners.s The older epileptics, who included four cases of severe cerebral damage, were particularly prone to anxiety and depression. Those with temporal lobe epilepsy had been the most suicidal. The one schizophrenic was a ‘doubtful’ epileptic.

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Research Article
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , February 1973 , pp. 108 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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