[The diagnosis of temporal epilepsy in child psychiatry: a report of 7 cases].

Aim: This paper attempts to describe the features of temporal epilepsy in patients firstly considered as having psychiatric disorders.

Methods: The cases of seven patients followed between 2005 and 2008 at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of Razi Hospital, aged 11 to 15 years are treated.

Results: All the patients showed complex partial seizures, and some of them showed secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Seizures were predominantly made of psychic symptoms (delusion, fear, aggressiveness) but also associated sensory, motor and vegetative features. In 5 cases, epilepsy was idiopathic, and symptomatic of brain anomaly in 2 cases.

Conclusion: Careful attention must be paid to paroxystic symptoms in children.