Some aspects to psychiatric morbidity among epileptics in Kuwait

ABSTRACT

A retrospective analysis of the in-patients case notes of 55 chronic epileptics admitted for psychiatric treatment to Kuwait Psychological Medicine Hospital revealed that the most common seizure type was primary generalized epilepsy. The admission rate for psychiatric treatment of the sample was higher than that of the general population. Schizophrenia followed by behaviour disturbance were the most common conditions diagnosed in the sample. Effective psychoses were rarely diagnosed; none of the epileptic effective patients showed bipolarity; ECT and lithium were not prescribed at all.A higher proportion of epileptic females had schizophrenia, and they were much younger in age at onset of epilepsy than epileptic males