Clinical features of patients who developed schizophrenia-like psychoses following surgical treatment for epilepsy
| Subject | Age/sex | Delusions | Hallucinations | First rank symptoms | Thought disorder | Negative symptoms | Course of disorder | Duration of symptoms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M, male; F, female; yrs, years; mths, months. | ||||||||
| P1 | 22/M | Persecutory | Auditory (2nd person) | Thought insertion | Present | Apathy | Chronic continuous (no response to treatment) | 10 yrs |
| P2 | 20/F | Persecutory | Auditory (2nd person) | None | Present | Social withdrawal | Chronic continuous (partial control by antipsychotics) | 14 yrs |
| P3 | 21/M | Persecutory reference | None | None | Present | None | Chronic continuous (partial control on antipsychotic) | 8 yrs |
| P4 | 39/F | Persecutory | None | Somatic passivity | None | None | Episodic with chronic residual delusions (partially responsive to treatment) | 3 yrs |
| P5 | 39/M | Persecutory | None | None | Present | Social withdrawal | Chronic continuous (refused treatment) | 9 yrs |
| P6 | 18/M | Persecutory | Auditory (2nd person) | None | None | Emotional flattening | Chronic continuous (poorly responsive to antipsychotics) | 8 yrs |
| P7 | 19/M | Persecutory | Somatic | Thought insertion | None | None | Chronic continuous (refused medication) | 4 yrs |
| P8 | 33/F | Persecutory | Auditory (2nd person) | None | None | None | Episodic with minimal symptoms between episodes on mediation | Episodes last 3–8 mths |
| P9 | 19/F | Persecutory | Auditory (2nd person) | Somatic passivity | None | None | Episodic with complete recovery between episodes on antipsychotic medication. Intermittently compliant with medication. | 16 yrs |
| P10 | 34/F | Persecutory and reference | Auditory (2nd person) | None | Present | None | One prolonged episode (partially responsive to antipsychotics) | 2 yrs |
| P11 | 18/F | Persecutory | Auditory (3rd person) | Commentary hallucinations | Present | None | One prolonged episode (responsive to medication) | 8 mths |