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Panic disorder or epilepsy? A case report.

Scalise A, Placidi F, Diomedi M, De Simone R, Gigli GL

Department of Neuroscience, S. Maria della Misericordia Hospital, p.le S. Maria della Misericordia n 15, 33100 Udine, Italy. annascalise@libero.it

Psychiatric and neurological disturbances can show up with panic attack symptoms. This report illustrates the difficulty in distinguishing between panic disorder and epilepsy in a subgroup of epileptic patients that suffer panic attacks as symptoms of seizures. This is the first report of panic attacks due to a focal lesion involving the left temporal lobe and the second case of panic attacks related to a meningioma.

Published 6 June 2006 in J Neurol Sci, 246(1): 173-5.
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