[ diagnosis of temporal epilepsy in child psychiatry: a report of 7 cases]

This paper attempts to describe the features of temporal epilepsy in patients firstly considered as having psychiatric disorders. The cases of seven patients followed between 2005 arc 2008 at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of Ran Hospital, aged II to 15 years are treated. All the patients showed complex partial seizures, and some of them showed secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Seizures were predominantly made of psychic symptoms [delusion fear, aggressiveness] hot also associated sensory, motor and vegetative features, In 5 cases, epilepsy was idiopathic, and symptomatic of brain anomaly in 2 cases, Careful attention must be paid to paroxystic symptoma in children