Frontal Lobe Seizure Presenting as Disorganised Behaviour to a Mental Health Service: A Case Report

Thilini Wickramarathna; Gayan Jayamaha; Miyuru Chandradasa; K.A.L.A. Kuruppuarachchi

doi:10.1192/bjo.2025.10787

BJPsych Open (Jun 2025)

Frontal Lobe Seizure Presenting as Disorganised Behaviour to a Mental Health Service: A Case Report

Thilini Wickramarathna,
Gayan Jayamaha,
Miyuru Chandradasa,
K.A.L.A. Kuruppuarachchi

Affiliations

Thilini Wickramarathna: South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
Gayan Jayamaha: Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, Victoria, Australia
Miyuru Chandradasa: Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
K.A.L.A. Kuruppuarachchi: Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10787
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11
pp. S324 – S324

Abstract

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Aims: Epilepsy can present with a wide range of neuropsychiatric manifestations. A seizure episode may take the form of motor convulsions, complex abnormal behaviours or unusual subjective experiences.

Published in BJPsych Open

ISSN: 2056-4724 (Online)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry: Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system: Psychiatry
Website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open

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