Epilepsy and homicide

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 667-673

  Pandya, Neil S ^a   Vrbancic, Mirna ^b   Ladino, Lady Diana ^a,c   Téllez Zenteno, José F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Aggression; Crime; Epilepsy surgery; Murder; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CRIME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRISON; SEIZURE; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84877941821     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S45370     Document Type: Article

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