@article{ref1,
title="Aggressive behaviour at a residential epilepsy centre",
journal="Seizure",
year="2000",
author="Bogdanovic, M. D. and Mead, S. H. and Duncan, J. S.",
volume="9",
number="1",
pages="58-64",
abstract="There is an extensive literature on epilepsy and violence, but no study has addressed aggression (i.e. apparently intentional violence) in a residential-care population. We performed a retrospective study at the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy (a residential-care facility in rural Buckinghamshire) in order to determine the frequency and character of episodes of aggression. This allowed us to identify a group of aggressive subjects who were compared with age- and sex-matched control subjects drawn from the remaining residents. We found the prevalence of aggression to be 27.2% in 1 year amongst long-term residents. The overall frequency was estimated at between 121 and 207 incidents per 100 persons per year. A few incidents (0.7%) were related to an acute psychosis but they were more likely to result in significant injury. Offenders were younger than non-aggressive residents. Gender, age of onset of epilepsy, history of psychosis, mobility, abnormality on MRI scan, learning disability and seizure frequency were not associated with aggressive conduct.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1059-1311",
doi="10.1053/seiz.1999.0363",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/seiz.1999.0363"
}