Title: Psychiatric aspects of epilepsy /
Authors: Blumer, Dietrich.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Press,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Epilepsy psychology; Epilepsy Psychological aspects; Epileptics Mental health.; Psychiatry.
Contents: The psychiatric dimension of epilepsy : historical perspective and current significance / Dietrich Blumer -- Epidemiologic overview of epilepsy : morbidity, mortality, and clinical implications / Janusz J. Zielinski -- Neurologic aspects of the epilepsies / Ernst Niedermeyer -- Medical treatment of epileptic patients ; Epileptic and pseudoepileptic seizures : differential diagnostic considerations / Ernst Rodin -- Behavioral alterations in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy / David Bear, Roy Freeman, and Mark Greenberg -- Psychosis in epilepsy / Shirley M. Ferguson and Mark Rayport -- Major mood disorders related to epileptic changes / Jonathan M. Himmelhoch -- Behavioral effects of temporal lobectomy for temporarl lobe epilepsy / A. Earl Walker and Dietrich Blumer -- Dostoievsky's epilepsy / Norman Geschwind.