Citation

Filgueiras MA. Arq. Neuropsiquiatr. 1992; 50(4): 547-549.

Vernacular Title

Definitivamente: epilepsia nao e doenca.

Affiliation

Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brasil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Associacao Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquitria)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1309166

Abstract

The author analyses past concepts which still hold good today. Such concepts regard epilepsy as a mental disease and the epileptic is usually taken as someone suffering from a severe mental disorder, tending to criminal behaviour. The author proves, taking into account various statements from prominent personalities in the scientific world, that epilepsy is neither a mental disease nor a disease in its own sense, and that the epileptic has not an aggressive behaviour.

Language: pt