Epileptic equivalent

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Epileptic equivalents (from Latin aequus , “equal” and valere “apply” , “be worth”, “mean”) is a first published in 1862 by the German psychiatrist Friedrich Hoffmann and later u. a. Name proposed by the German psychiatrist Paul Samt for all (supposedly) epileptic symptoms that do not run as a “grand mal seizure”. At the beginning and partly still in the middle of the 20th century the term z. B. used for psychomotor seizures, myoclonus in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy or for auras or focal seizures, which at the time were not yet clearly recognized as epileptic seizures.

Epileptic equivalents were considered an atypical expression of an epileptic illness. They have also been named as replacement seizures , as they often occur in place of a seizure in combination with a twilight state . The German neuropaediatrist and epileptologist Ansgar Matthes used the term as a synonym for atypical seizures.

Sometimes the term is also used for epileptic seizures with unusual symptoms such as headache, abdominal pain or dizziness as well as for non-epileptic disorders such as fugue, pavor nocturnus , somnambulism or moods. Some authors also use the term for a critical development of functional syndromes such as B. vegetative manifestations, episodes of poriomania or an alternative psychosis .

Other, equally misleading terms are: substitute seizures, masked seizures or masked seizures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Krämer : Lexicon of Epileptology . Hippocampus-Verlag, Bad Honnef 2012, ISBN 978-3-936817-86-7 , pp. 413-414 .
  2. ↑ MA Wirtz (Ed.): Dorsch - Lexicon of Psychology . 2015, Epileptic Equivalents ( hogrefe.com [accessed September 21, 2015]).
  3. ↑ Equivalent, epileptic . In: Walter Christian: Clinical electroencephalography. Textbook and atlas. Georg Thieme, Stuttgart 2 1977, ISBN 3-13-440202-5 ; Pp. 165, 171, 173 f.
  4. ↑ Equivalents, epileptic . In: Ansgar Matthes: Epilepsy . Diagnostics and therapy for clinics and practices. Georg Thieme Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-13-454803-8 ; P. 4 f., 85
  5. ↑ equivalent . In: Norbert Boss (Ed.): Roche Lexicon Medicine . 2nd Edition. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-541-13191-8 ; P. 26 cf. Gesundheit.de/roche