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F Oyebode

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PubMed1990

Handedness and epileptic schizophrenia.

Thirty-two epileptic patients with RDC diagnoses of schizophrenia were tested for handedness on the Annett Handedness Schedule, and handedness was assigned on the basis of Annett-Maudsley criteria. They were compared with three other groups of patients. Five (15.6%) of the epileptic schizophrenic patients were mixed or left handed. The prevalence of mixed and left handedness did not differ between the samples studied. However, there was a significant reduction of mixed and left handedness in male epileptics with schizophrenia. Mixed or left handedness in male epileptics appears to be protective against the development of psychiatric illness in general.

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PubMed1989

Epileptic schizophrenia: clinical features and outcome.

The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics and outcome of epileptic schizophrenia. A total of 106 patients with combined diagnoses of epilepsy and psychiatric disorder were identified; 20 were excluded and 70 agreed to participate. They were interviewed using the Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders Schedule - Lifetime Version and psychiatric diagnoses were assigned based on Research Diagnostic Criteria. Thirty-two subjects with additional diagnosis of schizophrenia were identified and compared with 31 functional schizophrenic patients matched for age. Both groups shared third person auditory hallucinations most in common, and delusions of passivity least; delusions of passivity occurred significantly more in functional schizophrenia. The global outcome was worse in epileptic schizophrenia and there was also evidence of significantly worse performance on the Mini-Mental State Examination by the same group.

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PubMed1986

Psychiatric sequelae of subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Twenty cases with psychiatric disorder occurring after subarachnoid haemorrhage were studied. Seventy per cent had a research diagnostic criteria diagnosis of major depressive disorder, most of whom also had signs of persisting organic brain damage. Ten per cent of the cases committed suicide, and only 10% had made a full recovery from the psychiatric disorder. There was no significant association between the laterality of damage and the subsequent development of major depressive disorder, however, middle cerebral artery haemorrhage was over-represented in the sample.

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