Epilepsy and violence

¹Maudsley Hospital, London.

The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science

|August 1, 1989

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Epileptic automatism and violence are seldom found among temporal lobe epileptics. The case of a 19-year-old girl who killed a 20-month-old child during an epileptic attack is described, and the literature and medico-legal issues are briefly reviewed.

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