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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1967) 113: 1375-1379. doi: 10.1192/bjp.113.505.1375
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Schizophrenia-like Psychoses in Nigerian Epileptics

(A Study made in Nigeria)

T. ASUNI M.A., M.D., D.P.M.1 and V. S. PILLUTLA M.B., B.S., D.P.M.2

1 Medical Superintendent, Aro Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Abeokuta, Nigeria
2 Medical Officer, Aro Hospital, Abeokuta; Morgannwg Hospital, Bridgend, Glamorgan

Forty-two cases of epilepsy in Nigeria have been studied and , 11 were found to have a schizophrenia-like psychosis. The clinical features are described and it is concluded that the psychoses do not differ significantly from those occurring in Europeans.

Submitted on July 7, 1966




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