[Prevention of secondary neurotic and other mental disorders in traumatic epilepsy].

Abstract

A study was made of the effect of risk factors and the clinical picture of the prodromal period in 184 patients with traumatic epilepsy, of the efficacy of nootropic and long-acting psychotropic drugs in combined treatment. The risk factors were brain contusions, open cranial injuries, particularly in frontotemporal areas, comatose states after injury lasting over 6 hours, successive fits in the acute period of injury, episodic disorders of dull consciousness. Administration of nootropic and long-acting drugs brought about a reduction of the cerebral asthenic symptomatology and stabilization of emotional disturbances which promoted prevention of secondary neurotic and other mental disorders in patients with traumatic epilepsy.

• Authors: V T Lekomtsev
• Journal: Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (Moscow, Russia : 1952) (Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova) Vol. 91 Issue 6 Pg. 33-4 ( 1991) ISSN: 0044-4588 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Profilaktika vtorichnykh nevroticheskikh i drugikh psikhicheskikh rasstroĭstv pri travmaticheskoĭ épilepsii.
• PMID: 1664580 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anticonvulsants

Topics

• Anticonvulsants (therapeutic use)
• Brain Injuries (complications)
• Cognition Disorders (etiology, prevention & control)
• Combined Modality Therapy
• Depressive Disorder (etiology, prevention & control)
• Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic (etiology, psychology, therapy)
• Humans
• Neurasthenia (etiology, prevention & control)
• Neurocognitive Disorders (etiology, prevention & control)
• Psychotherapy (methods)