A teachers' questionnaire description of epileptic children

A teachers' questionnaire was completed for 120 children from normal schools, half of whom suffered from epilepsy. The rate of perceived disturbance among the 30 epileptic children who, for a variety of reasons, had been admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital was as high as that of a matched group of psychiatric inpatients. The other epileptic children were seen to exhibit significantly more signs of disturbance than their normal school controls with whom they had been matched for behavior. The two epileptic groups shared certain behavioral characteristics. These did not fit into typical "neurotic" or "antisocial" patterns and may relate to cerebral dysfunction.