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Comparative survey of comorbidities in people with learning disability with and without epilepsy
- Authors:
- PAWAR Deepak, AKUFFO Emmanuel O.
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 32(6), June 2008, pp.224-226.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
Seeks to ascertain the prevalence of epilepsy and understand the differences in the comorbidities of non-epileptic and epileptic patients with learning disabilities. A simple comparative survey was undertaken between the two main groups of patients: non-epileptic and epileptic. The prevalence of epilepsy in the study group was 30%. A total of 70% of patients with any type of challenging behaviour were in the non-epileptic group compared with 59% in the epileptic group. Depression was the most common diagnosis in both groups, being slightly more in the non-epileptic group. Our study suggests that there is no association between epilepsy and the prevalence of challenging behaviour of psychiatric conditions within the learning disabilities population.
Assessing the prevalence and exploring the aetiology of intellectual disability in the early twentieth century: the experience of policy and practice in New South Wales
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Ann Katherine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 28(1), March 2003, pp.40-50.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
From the beginning of the twentieth century to the failure of the passage of the New South Wales Mental Defectives Bill in 1930, several investigations were conducted in an attempt to assess the prevalence of intellectual disability in the Australian community. During this period, 7252 people were admitted to state mental hospitals in New South Wales with a diagnosis of congenital or infantile mental deficiency, including the diagnostic subcategories of epileptic insanity and general paralysis of the insane. Using primary source material including annual reports of the New South Wales Lunacy Department, New South Wales Inspector General of the Insane Correspondence Files, and aggregated diagnostic data from patient case notes, this article will discuss attempts to assess the prevalence of intellectual disability in Australia and more specifically in New South Wales during the period and attempts to attribute causation. Epilepsy and syphilis will be discussed in terms of causation and correlation as specific co-morbid conditions associated with intellectual disability.
Physical health of adults with intellectual disabilities
- Editors:
- PRASHER Vee, JANICKI Matthew
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 286p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
In common with the rest of the population, people with intellectual disabilities are experiencing increased longevity. Evidence suggests that mental health disorders may occur in up to half of all persons with intellectual disability and that these disorders accelerate significantly with age. Part one: prevalence and diagnosis; part two: treatments and interventions.