Abstract
Previous sexual abuse is now thought to be a common cause of non-epileptic seizures (pseudoseizures). However, since sexual abuse is common, a previous history of sexual abuse may also occur in people with actual epilepsy. We present six patients in all of whom sexual abuse may, by acting as a stressor in the already predisposed, have precipitated epilepsy and in some of whom the abuse may have affected the actual experiences of the epilepsy itself: all but one of the patients had partial seizures.
MeSH terms
-
Abreaction
-
Adolescent
-
Adult
-
Awareness / physiology
-
Child
-
Child Abuse, Sexual / complications
-
Child Abuse, Sexual / physiopathology
-
Child Abuse, Sexual / psychology*
-
Child, Preschool
-
Conversion Disorder / physiopathology
-
Conversion Disorder / psychology*
-
Dissociative Disorders / physiopathology
-
Dissociative Disorders / psychology
-
Electroencephalography
-
Epilepsies, Partial / physiopathology
-
Epilepsies, Partial / psychology
-
Epilepsy / physiopathology
-
Epilepsy / psychology*
-
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
-
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / psychology
-
Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / physiopathology
-
Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / psychology
-
Evoked Potentials / physiology
-
Female
-
Humans
-
Mental Recall
-
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / physiopathology
-
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / psychology
-
Temporal Lobe / physiopathology
-
Violence