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Bipolar Disorder Associated with Primary Generalised Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert H. Howland
Robert H. Howland*
Affiliation:
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 15213
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Abstract

A patient with bipolar disorder and primary generalised epilepsy, and a family history of psychiatric illness and epilepsy, is described. The episodic psychiatric symptoms were temporally correlated with epileptic discharges and absence seizures observed during repeated EEGs.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 5 , May 1993 , pp. 699 - 700
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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