The influence of epileptic predisposition on clinical features of schizophrenia in patients after delirium tremens
153 patients with schizophrenia in combination with alcoholic delirium were examined. Latent epilepsy has been found in 36 patients (23.5%). The basis of the epileptic seizures during alcoholic delirium was hereditary epileptic predisposition. Frequency of the progredient course was high while that of the favourable--recurrent course of schizophrenia was low in these cases.