Psychiatry Investig.  2015 Apr;12(2):274-277. 10.4306/pi.2015.12.2.274.

Psychiatric Symptoms in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Left Mesial Hippocampal Sclerosis

• Jang H
• Kim SH
• Park SH
• Choo IH
• Kim SG

• KMID: 2316440
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4306/pi.2015.12.2.274

Abstract

A 16-year-old woman was referred to us for depression and persistent suicidal and homicidal ideation. From 2010, the patient visited a neurologist due to recurrent grand mal epilepsy, auditory and visual hallucinations, episodic memory loss, and persistent depression. Upon admission, it was revealed through clinical history taking that she had suffered from chronic bullying from same-sex peers and sexual abuse, twice, from an adult male in the neighborhood when she was 10 years old. A brain magnetic resonance imaging study showed left mesial hippocampal sclerosis. The patient exhibited improvement of her psychiatric symptoms after treatment with a combination of fluoxetine (30 mg) and aripiprazole (10 mg). Children and adolescents with epilepsy experience conflicts in the family, challenges at school, stigma, and psychosocial limitations or deprivations due to their comorbid psychiatric symptoms and hence, psychiatric evaluation and early intervention is important when treating these patients.

Keyword

Suicidal ideation; Homicidal ideation; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Left mesial hippocampal sclerosis

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Adult
Brain
Bullying
Child
Depression
Early Intervention (Education)
Epilepsy
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe*
Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic
Female
Fluoxetine
Hallucinations
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Memory, Episodic
Residence Characteristics
Sclerosis*
Sex Offenses
Suicidal Ideation
Aripiprazole
Fluoxetine