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Schizophrenia-like Psychoses in Nigerian Epileptics (A Study made in Nigeria)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

T. Asuni  and
V. S. Pillutla
T. Asuni
Affiliation:
Aro Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Abeokuta, Nigeria
V. S. Pillutla
Affiliation:
Aro Hospital, Abeokuta; now at Morgannwg Hospital, Bridgend, Glamorgan
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The occurrence of psychotic episodes indistinguishable from schizophrenia in epileptic patients has long been recognized, and Slater, Beard and Glithero have recently published their findings in sixty-nine such cases.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 505 , December 1967 , pp. 1375 - 1379
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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References

1. Garland, Hugh G., and Sumner, David W. (1964). “Sulthiame in treatment of epilepsy.” Brit. med. J., i, 475–476.Google Scholar
2. Slater, E., Beard, A. W., and Glithero, E. (1963). “The schizophrenia-like psychoses of epilepsy.” Brit. J. Psychiat., 109, 110–112.Google Scholar
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