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INSANITY ASSOCIATED WITH EPILEPSY .The term
insanity ," which has for many years been in common use, is epileptic now regarded as a misnomer. There is in short no !sanity. such disease as epileptic insanity . A brain, however,which is so unstable as to exhibit the sudden discharges of nervous
majority of patients, however, who suffer from epilepsy are liable to exhibit certain mental symptoms which are regarded as characteristic of the disease. Some suffer from recurrent attacks of depression, ill-humour and irritability, which may readily pass into violence under provocation. Others are emotionally fervid in religious observances, though sadly deficient in the practice of the religious life
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When epileptics do become insane the insanity is generally one of the forms of mania. Either the patient suffers from sudden furious attacks of excitement in which consciousness is entirely abolished, or the mania is of the type of the elevated stage of folie circulaire (manic-depressive insanity) and alternates with periods of deep depression. In the elevated period the patient shows exaggerated self-esteem, with passionate outbursts of anger, and periods of religious emotionalism. While in the stage of depression the patient is often actively suicidal. Epileptic patients who suffer from recurrent attacks of delirious mania are liable to certain nervous
If the mental attacks partake of the character of elevation
Where insanity is superadded to epilepsy the prognosis is unfavourable.End of Article: INSANITY ASSOCIATED WITH EPILEPSY If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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