Heautoscopy, epilepsy, and suicide.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Heautoscopy (the doppelgänger experience), epilepsy, and suicide is a triad primarily known from literary accounts. This paper reports a patient with complex partial seizures who tried to commit suicide during the experience of heautoscopy.
Medical subject headings
- Epilepsy, Complex Partial
- Hallucinations
- Suicide, Attempted