Psychic Seizures and Their Relevance to Psychosis in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Fukao, Kenjiro

doi:10.5772/18777

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“…An example where seizure was a Open Journal of Psychiatry trigger for anxiety disorder was the WHO report by Kenjiro Fukao where it was noted that fear of having seizure can metamorphosize to generalized anxiety disorder through amygdala dysfunction. This may result in anxiety symptoms due to persistent firing of the amygdala and the surrounding regions [28]. Another major predictor of anxiety disorder was family history of psychiatric illness (p = 0.045).…”

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Correlates of Anxiety Disorder among Patients with Seizure Disorders in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

Madandola¹,

Sale²,

Adebisi³

et al. 2019

OJPsych

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Background: Anxiety may complicate epilepsy as is often the case out of the various psychiatric comorbidities patients can suffer from when they are suffering from epilepsy. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of anxiety among patients that had epilepsy and also to examine the associated socio-demographic and clinical factors that are associated with and eventually predictive of this psychiatric comorbidity. Materials and Method: This study was a descriptive cross-sectional study that involved the use of General Health Questionnaire, version 28 (GHQ-28) and the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), which were used independently to investigate each of the 400 consecutive participants in this study over a period of 24 weeks. The diagnosis of epilepsy was based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) diagnostic criteria and all participants with anxiety were diagnosed using CIDI. A proforma Questionnaire was used to assess the socio-demographic and some clinical variables among patients. Logistic regression was done to determine the predictors of anxiety in the study participants. Results: When screened with GHQ-28, 71 people (17.8%) met criteria for caseness. When all the participants were examined using CIDI, 12 (3%) were diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. The variables found to be the predictors of anxiety were family history of psychiatric disorders (p = 0.045), fear of having seizure (p = 0.036) and GHQ caseness (p = 0.002).

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Correlates of Anxiety Disorder among Patients with Seizure Disorders in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

Madandola¹,

Sale²,

Adebisi³

et al. 2019

OJPsych

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“…It is the phenomenon of psychic seizure that is believed to be the reason for the high incidence of psychiatric symptoms in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). The relationship between seizure and psychosis have been of clinical interest for a long time but the link with schizophrenia is not clear [25]. The theory that epilepsy protected against psychosis led to the use of convulsive therapy in psychotic patients in the 1930s [1].…”

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Correlates of Psychosis Among Patients with Seizure Disorders in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

Madandola¹,

Sale²,

Adebisi³

et al. 2019

AJPN

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Psychosis may complicate epilepsy. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of Psychosis among patients with epilepsy and to examine its socio-demographic and clinical correlates. This study was a descriptive crosssectional study that involved the use of General Health Questionnaire, version 28(GHQ-28) and the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), which were used to investigate each of the 400 consecutive participants. The diagnosis of epilepsy was based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) diagnostic criteria and all participants with Psychosis were diagnosed using CIDI. A proforma Questionnaire was used to assess the socio-demographic and clinical variables among the participants. Logistic regression was done to determine the predictors of psychosis. Thirty-two participants (8%) were diagnosed as having psychosis. Unemployment and GHQ caseness were predictors of Psychosis among the participants (p=0.038, p=<0.001 respectively). The study showed the existence of Psychosis among patients with seizure disorder. This is an important association with seizure disorders which has implications on the course of the disorder. The assessment of these patients for this co-morbidity and identification of the factors that leads to unemployment among people with seizure disorder will enhance treatment outcome.

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“…These include altered perceptions of body size (shrinking or enlarging), visions, out of body experiences, precognition, mind reading and controlling the mind of others, and experiences of past lives. The experiences of psychic powers in meditation may be indicative of psychosis, which itself could be linked to seizures, or result directly from psychic seizures 27 , particularly of temporal lobe origin 28 . For example, experiences of precognition may be linked to ictal prescience, the subjective feeling of knowing what will happen in the future 29 ; out of body experiences have a neurophysiological basis 30 ; and memories of past lives may result from erroneous recollection and experiences of déjà vu resulting from ictal activity 31 .…”

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Can hyper-synchrony in meditation lead to seizures? Similarities in meditative and epileptic brain states

Lindsay

2014

Medical Hypotheses

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Meditation is used worldwide by millions of people for relaxation and stress relief. Given sufficient practice, meditators may also experience a variety of altered states of consciousness. These states can lead to a variety of unusual experiences, including physical, emotional and psychic disturbances. This paper highlights the correspondences between brain states associated with these experiences and the symptoms and neurophysiology of epileptic simple partial seizures. Seizures, like meditation practice, can result in both positive and negative experiences. The neurophysiology and chemistry underlying simple partial seizures are characterised by a high degree of excitability and high levels of neuronal synchrony in gamma-band brain activity. Following a survey of the literature that shows that meditation practice is also linked to high power gamma activity, an account of how meditation could cause such activity is provided. This paper discusses the diagnostic challenges for the claim that meditation practices lead to brain states similar to those found in epileptic seizures, and seeks to develop our understanding of the range of pathological and non-pathological states that result from a hyper-excited and hyper-synchronous brain.

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Psychic Seizures and Their Relevance to Psychosis in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

Correlates of Anxiety Disorder among Patients with Seizure Disorders in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

Correlates of Anxiety Disorder among Patients with Seizure Disorders in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

Correlates of Psychosis Among Patients with Seizure Disorders in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria

Can hyper-synchrony in meditation lead to seizures? Similarities in meditative and epileptic brain states

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