Postictal psychosis: common, dangerous, and treatable.
Postictal psychosis: common, dangerous, and treatable.
\”Occasionally, after a fit, or, more frequently, after a series of fits, an attack of mental disturbance may come on which lasts for several days. It may be simply a demented state, or there may be hallucinations, with irritability and even violence (1).\”
Devinsky O.
Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery, NYU Epilepsy Center New York, NY.