Citation

Boylan LS. Epilepsy Behav. 2002; 3(1): 16-26.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1006/ebeh.2001.0305

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Peri-ictal behavioral and cognitive changes contribute substantially to disability and distress among people with epilepsy. Psychosis, depression, and suicide may all occur as complications of seizures. Greater appreciation and understanding of the peri-ictal period is clinically important and might open novel therapeutic windows. At the same time this period provides a model for understanding basic mechanisms underlying mood and thought disorders and the substrates of cognition, volition, emotion, and consciousness. This review will discuss behavioral and cognitive antecedents of seizures, including the preictal milieu, reflex seizures, and self-induced seizures. Behavioral and cognitive treatment approaches that have been undertaken are reviewed. Both acute and delayed postictal emotional, behavioral, and cognitive changes will be discussed. Finally, possible mechanisms by which epileptic brain activity and behavior may modify each other are considered. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).

Language: en

Keywords

affective neurosis; aggressiveness; Behavior; behavior disorder; behavior modification; behavior therapy; cognitive defect; cognitive therapy; consciousness; depression; Depression; disability; distress syndrome; emotion; epilepsy; Epilepsy; epileptogenesis; feedback system; human; mania; neurobiology; Peri-lotal state; Postical state; psychosis; Psychosis; Reflex epilepsy; relaxation training; review; reward; seizure; Seizures; self control; Self-induced seizures; suicidal behavior; Sulcide; thought disorder; violence