Does automatism often occur?

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Automatism is a special form of epilepsy, which refers to the involuntary and unconscious simple or complex actions in the process of or after seizures, such as smacking, chewing, nodding, hands groping, talking to oneself, involuntary crying and laughing, walking, running, etc., which can not be recalled after waking up. Different pathways of epileptic discharge can cause different forms of automatism. Electroencephalogram is mostly focal or multifocal epileptiform discharge, drug therapy is the first choice to control seizures.

Does automatism often occur?

The treatment of epilepsy is to control the recurrence of antiepileptic drugs for the purpose of symptomatic treatment. At present, there are many kinds of antiepileptic drugs. If the selected drugs are not right, the curative effect is very little. Sometimes the disease will worsen. The most effective way to prevent recurrence is to maintain the medication and consolidate the curative effect.

After 3-5 years of complete control, the patients with primary epilepsy can consider stopping the drug only when the EEG is normal or the epileptic wave disappears. To maintain the dosage of the drug, we should follow the individualized situation, that is, to explore the effective dose of the minimum dose according to the individual. Therefore, early selection of more effective, more scientific and safer treatment can achieve the purpose of cure and no recurrence.

The onset of automatism is sudden, the eyes are dull, and some aimless automatic actions are made, such as stretching the tongue, chewing, walking, running, undressing, moving animal parts, mumbling, etc. the attack lasts for several seconds, minutes or more than 10 minutes, and the memory is after the attack. It is a relatively complex syndrome, including a variety of psychopathology such as feeling, thinking, emotion, will and so on.

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Automatism is characterized by a group of clear consciousness, including false hallucination, compulsive thinking, feeling of being exposed, and systematic persecution delusion, delusion, etc. In addition, can also be accompanied by false hallucinating memories, forgotten events suddenly appear in the form of false hallucinations. These events are vivid and concrete. This kind of memory also becomes the content of delusion structure. Its typical performance is to feel that one's mental activity has lost one's own attribute, and the feeling is caused by external force. More common in schizophrenia, also can be seen in infection, toxic mental disorders.