[Criteria for the long-term prognosis of epilepsy occurring with psychotic disorders]

On the basis of analysis of 450 epileptic cases the authors have established positive correlations between the suspected ethological factors (endogenic predisposition in the form of epileptoid personality characteristics in relatives, alcoholism in parents, birth-related traumas, the history of intracranial infections at the early stages of ontogenesis) and the main structural dynamic manifestations of the disease in delayed periods. The above factors have been frequently associated with an unfavourable course of the disease, largely characterized by catatonic disturbances, and have been less common in patients with torpid and mixed patterns of the disease. The form of the psychosis course (transitory, paroxysmal and chronic) is poorly correlated with epilepsy progression.