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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 32214" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>I have never advocated for a neuropsychologist evaluation. I believe temporal lobe epilepsy should be treated as epilepsy not as bipolar, schizophrenia, ADHD or any other name given to a group of behaviors which can't be objectively diagnosed. Considering that the symptoms for all those disorders -- including the TLE -- can overlap but the medications used to treat some of them lower the seizure threshold, it seem counterintuitive to not treat the one disorder that has been objectively diagnosed, treatment which would involve avoiding medication which would make it worse.</p><p></p><p>Reducing or eliminating an antipsychotic can cause withdrawal-like problems which result in worsening behavior. However, the increased spiking would not be a result of lessening the Abilify but could be related to long term chronic use of a stimulant and an antipsychotic. Just like there is a cummulative effect on the brain from the long term use of psychotropics, the recovery by the brain from the changes made by those drugs will be long term.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 32214, member: 1498"] I have never advocated for a neuropsychologist evaluation. I believe temporal lobe epilepsy should be treated as epilepsy not as bipolar, schizophrenia, ADHD or any other name given to a group of behaviors which can't be objectively diagnosed. Considering that the symptoms for all those disorders -- including the TLE -- can overlap but the medications used to treat some of them lower the seizure threshold, it seem counterintuitive to not treat the one disorder that has been objectively diagnosed, treatment which would involve avoiding medication which would make it worse. Reducing or eliminating an antipsychotic can cause withdrawal-like problems which result in worsening behavior. However, the increased spiking would not be a result of lessening the Abilify but could be related to long term chronic use of a stimulant and an antipsychotic. Just like there is a cummulative effect on the brain from the long term use of psychotropics, the recovery by the brain from the changes made by those drugs will be long term. [/QUOTE]
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