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Psycho-motor Epilepsy of Syphilitic Origin, with Consciousness of the Epileptic Attacks, and associated with Criminal Tendencies [Epilessia psichomotoria con coscienza degli accessi e manifestazioni criminose e di origine sifilitica]. (Arch. di Psich., vol. xxii, fasc. 4, 5, 1901.) Lombroso, Gina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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This is a very complete clinical report of a case of some interest. The patient, a man, æt. 68, with nothing special in his family history, had contracted syphilis at the age of 21; twenty years later, after a period of intense brain work, he had a sudden attack of localised frontal headache with paresis of the right side. The paralytic symptoms cleared up rapidly, but the patient remained subject to headache and vertiginous attacks, and also to periodic fits of morbid anger with impulsive violence to things and persons about him. Latterly, these symptoms increased, and the patient's mental power declined.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1902 

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