Forced normalization
When forced normalizing a complete or partial inconspicuousness of is EEG findings referred compared to a previously detectable epileptiform activity in the EEG surface and compared to a pre-existing clinically manifest seizure frequency . Sometimes there is a complete or partial phase of freedom from seizures that coincides with and at the same time as the EEG normalization. However, this phase is occasionally associated with the occurrence of a mental disorder. Paradoxically, the disturbance is temporally tied to the interval between the EEG normalization. Paradoxical normalization is therefore also used synonymously . The mental disorder can escalate into a psychotic episode. It is called alternative psychosis because it is seen not only as an expression of a change in symptoms , but also as a phase-changing and antagonistic course. The Swiss psychiatrist and epileptologist Heinrich Landolt (1917–1971) first coined the term forced normalization in 1955. With regard to the inconsistent, antagonistic psychological-clinical and electrophysiological findings, he used the term "psycho-electrencephalographic correlations".
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Fröscher: Alternative psychosis and forced normalization . German Society for Epileptology V.
- ↑ P. Wolf: Acute behavioral symptomatology at disappearance of epileptiform EEG abnormality. Paradoxical or “forced” normalization . In: D. Smith, D. Treiman, M. Trimble (Eds.): Adv. Neurol. 55, 1991, pp. 127-142
- ^ Heinrich Landolt: On moods, twilight states and schizophrenic states of affairs in epilepsy . Results of clinical and electro-encephalographic examinations. In: Switzerland. Arch. Neurol. Psychiatry. , 76, 1955, pp. 313-321
- ↑ psycho-electrencephalographic correlations . In: Walter Christian: Clinical electroencephalography. Textbook and old glass. 2nd Edition. Georg Thieme, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-13-440202-5 ; P. 165