Interpretation of Psychotic Symptoms in Epilepsy -Taking Neojacksonism (Ey) into Consideration

Abstract

About three cases that presented the psychotic symptoms (Postictal psychosis, Alternative psychosis, Chronic psychosis) associated with epilepsy, we tried interpretation based on Neojacksonism. The psychotic symptoms of the patients usually start more than ten years after the onset of the epileptic seizures. During this period, we assume that a repeated seizure may make higher brain function lead to instability and gradually weaken. Under this condition, in case the higher brain function heavily collapses, the brain function located in low layers are released and activated psychodynamically. However, the manifestation releasing from the lower brain function may give a misleading result.