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Behavioural symptom, such as
worsening aggression, is
presented
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Take history and precise
description of behaviour
Review EEG | Ask most appropriate
| individual family member or
Ask family for video recording |
| carer to record seizures,
Identify professionals involved _______|_______ behaviours, drug timing
(e.g. behavioural support, |
nursing, psychiatry, | Ask for record of events
psychology) | preceding, during and after
Meet again
behaviour
_____________ Assess with written record the ____________
likelihood of causation of
behaviour by assessing the
following three options:
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|
________________________
Behaviour caused by Behaviour caused by Behaviour independent of
seizures medication seizures or medication
| | |
| | |
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No external environmental Association with starting Long-term environmental
precipitant medication precipitants
Behaviour identical on each Association with timing of Factors as in Table 3
occasion medication
Post or pre-ictal picked up by Dose relationship
record
Figure 1. Assessing behavioural symptoms in epilepsy in people
with learning disability.
