ABSTRACT
The review of liteiature above has indicated numerous studies which stress the fact that adverse factors in the environment-a rejecting peer group, anxiety or rejection by parents, and a hostile social world-may cause behavioural disturbances in the epileptic. This behaviour may serve to reinforce the adverse picture that others have of the epileptic. A number of writers have laid stress on brain damage as causative of disturbed behaviour in epilepsy. Some have suggested that the disturbed behaviour is a neurological equivalent to epilepsy, while others have suggested that there is a complex interaction of social environment, early personality, the effect of fits, and brain damage influencing behaviour in epilepsy.
