Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 2 Biobehavioral Influences (1994) / Chapter Skim
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reviewed several hundred seizures in epileptic persons, induced in the laboratory by injecti on of m etrazol for diagnostic purposes. ~ ~ The results of their review indicated that aggressive behavior or angry feelings were extremely rare.
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Epileptic patients may thrash about in the course of a generalized seizure, or may appear to strike out if attempts are made to restrain them; however, the impaired cognitive state associated with a generalized seizure is scarcely compatible with a directed attack upon another person. Although it seems unlikely that ictal violence or aggression is a significant human problem, there has nevertheless been a scale devised to rate aggressive behavior during seizures and to certify whether such behavior was truly ictal ;DeIgado-Escueta et al., 19811.
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and never enter the statistical pool? The second approach {i.e., to start with the aggressive behaviors may also suffer from a sampling bias.
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