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The problem of convulsive disorders in geriatric psychiatry

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Two hundred fifty institutional epileptics with concomitant psychiatric disorders were studied to correlate the effects of aging on the morbidity and prognosis of the convulsive disorder. Evidence is presented to indicate that the majority of patients with convulsive disorders tend to improve with age. Data are presented to show that in the light of our present knowledge the problem of epilepsy in our geriatric population can be managed adequately and that aged epileptic patients can expect to live normal life spans in spite of their convulsive disorders.

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  1. Central Islip State Hospital, Central Islip, N. Y.

    Sidney Merlis M. D., Francis J. O'Neill M. D. & Frederick Weinberg M. D.

  2. New York University-Bellevue Post-Graduate Medical School, New York, N. Y.

    Sidney Merlis M. D., Francis J. O'Neill M. D. & Frederick Weinberg M. D.

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  1. Sidney Merlis M. D.
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  2. Francis J. O'Neill M. D.
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Read before the Section on Mental Hospitals, annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, St. Louis, May 7, 1954.

Stephen Glickman, B. S., assisted with the technical preparation of this investigation.

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Merlis, S., O'Neill, F.J. & Weinberg, F. The problem of convulsive disorders in geriatric psychiatry. Psych Quar 29, 74–84 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01567440

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