Psychosis and seizure disorder: challenges in diagnosis and treatment.

Psychosis temporally related to seizure episodes has been a recognized entity with much clinical attention, yet there are less clear guidelines for treatment. Presence of perceptual disturbances and cognitive impairment symptoms make the differentiation between primary psychoses and seizure- related psychoses blurred. Moreover, there are only a few reported cases describing clinical presentation, diagnostic dilemma and treatment challenges when these two entities are present at the same time, with overlapping symptomatology.