NCJ Number
53121
Date Published
1978
Length
45 pages
Annotation
THIS PAPER UPDATES THROUGH 1977 MONROE'S 1970 MONOGRAPH 'EPISODIC BEHAVIORAL DISORDER,' WHICH REVIEWS AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ESTABLISHES CRITERIA TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN EPILEPTOID AND MOTIVATED DISORDER.
Abstract
IN ADDITION TO ESTABLISHING, AT A DESCRIPTIVE, NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC, AND PSYCHODYNAMIC LEVEL, CHARACTERISTICS DISTINGUISHING PATIENTS WHOSE EPISODIC DISORDER IS PREDOMINATELY EPILEPTOID FROM THOSE WHOSE DISORDER IS PREDOMINATELY MOTIVATED, MONROE ALSO DESCRIBES SPECIFIC PHARMACOLOGIC REGIMENS AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES FOR TREATING PATIENTS WITH SUCH BEHAVIOR DISORDERS. ADDING MATERIALS THROUGH 1977, IN ADDITION TO A FEW SIGNIFICANT PRE-1970 PAPERS NOT INCLUDED IN THE ORIGINAL MONOGRAPH, THIS PAPER INCLUDES AN EVALUATION OF THE INFLUENCE THAT THE CONCEPT OF EPISODIC BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS HAS HAD ON THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND EPISODIC DYSCONTROL IS DISCUSSED, ALONG WITH NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC AND NEUROANATOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE EPISODIC BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS, EPILEPSY AND EPISODIC BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS, EPISODIC BEHAVIORAL DISORDER WITH ABNORMAL ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHS, ACTIVATED ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY IN EPISODIC BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS, SURGICAL STUDIES OF AGGRESSION (I.E., TEMPORAL LOBOTOMY, AMYGDALOTOMY), PHARMOCOLOGIC TREATMENT OF EPISODIC BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS, AND THE USE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY. REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED. (KBL)