Psychomotor epilepsy and violence in a group of incarcerated adolescent boys
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 139 (7), 882-887
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.7.882
Abstract
The finding of psychomotor epilepsy in 18 of 97 incarcerated delinquent boys is reported. Number of psychomotor symptoms was correlated with degree of violence in the members of this group. In addition, psychomotor symptoms were correlated more strongly with certain psychotic symptoms than with soft neurological signs or intellectual deficits. The relationship of violence to ictal and interictal states is explored.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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