Definition of Psychomotor epilepsy

1. Noun. Epilepsy characterized clinically by impairment of consciousness and amnesia for the episode; often involves purposeful movements of the arms and legs and sometimes hallucinations.

Exact synonyms: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Generic synonyms: Epilepsy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychomotor Epilepsy

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psychomotor epilepsy (current term)
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Literary usage of Psychomotor epilepsy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychopathological Researches: Studies in Mental Dissociation by Boris Sidis (1908)
"... Mental Dissociation In psychomotor epilepsy By GEORGE M. PARKER CHAPTER I PSYCHOMOTOR MANIFESTATIONS THE patient is a German, thirty-three years of age ..."

2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"This type of seizure has been called psychomotor epilepsy and represents ... psychomotor epilepsy is sometimes confused with psychiatric illness. ..."

3. Psychopathological Researches: Studies in Mental Dissociation by Boris Sidis (1902)
"... Mental Dissociation In psychomotor epilepsy B, GEORGE M. PARKER CHAPTER I PSYCHOMOTOR MANIFESTATIONS THE patient is a German, thirty-three years of age ..."

4. The Science, Treatment, and Prevention of Antisocial Behaviorsby Diana H. Fishbein by Diana H. Fishbein (2004)
"psychomotor epilepsy and violence in a group of incarcerated boys. American Journal of Psychiatry, 139, 882-887. Li, X., Stanton, B., Pack, R., Harris, C., ..."

5. Psychopathology of Hysteria by Charles Daniel Fox (1913)
"Parker writes of a case of psychomotor epilepsy in which the convulsions and minor attacks were preceded by a foul taste and a fetid odor. ..."

6. Psychopathology of Hysteria by Charles Daniel Fox (1913)
"Parker writes of a case of psychomotor epilepsy in which the convulsions and minor attacks were preceded by a foul taste and a fetid odor. ..."

7. The Dog: Bibliography January 1985-January 1994 by Cynthia P. Smith (1995)
"... Stimulus-responsive psychomotor epilepsy in a Doberman pinscher. Crowell-Davis, SL; Lappin, M.; Oliver, JE Golden, Colo. : The Association. ..."

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