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Epileptic aphasia and dysphoria interpreted as endogenous depression
A M Plesner1, E Munk-Andersen, K Lühdorf
1Department of Neurology, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
|September 1, 1987
Abstract:
A case is reported of a 29-yr-old female with attacks of aphasia/dysphasia over a period of several months which lasted days to weeks accompanied by a dysphoric state. The patients was for long regarded as endogenous depressive with a hysterical speech disorder. However, the diagnosis of epilepsy was finally made based on generalized attacks, appropriate EEG changes, and the response to anti-epileptic therapy.