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2007, Number 4

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Rev Mex Neuroci 2007; 8 (4)

Epilepsy and material feminine sexuality

Souza MM

Language: Spanish
References: 48
Page: 372-380
PDF size: 66.15 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Epilepsy, a serious problem of public health in Mexico, is linked to psychiatric co-morbidity, whose sexual expression is wrongly interpreted in society, and not well attended. The neural response and the epileptic mechanisms of affectation are described, as well as the processes derived from the use of anti-epileptic drugs and other ethiopathogenic factors to be considered in this problem. The timely clinical identification of the incapacity that implies feminine sexual dysfunction, remains blocked by myths and prejudices, or is simply ignored. The double social moral and the wrong interpretation of feminine sexual behavior, even when it is healthy, causes direct/indirect damages in different ways: Psychopathologic (selfdevaluation, infant-juvenile sexual abuse, etc.), socio-familiar, neuro-physiopathologic, and by effect of illegal/legal substances. The approaches to these problems are recommended, and the more frequent sexual alterations described, in order to promote the accomplishment of a better semiologic-propedeutic methodology in which treatment of the primary upheaval and its co-morbidity are simultaneously built. The appropriate reference of the patient is an unsustainable clinical need that reinforces comprehensive treatment. It is necessary to improve emotional aspects of the patients within themselves, in first instance, to increase quality in their conjugal, familiar and communitarian life. The restriction of social opportunities and the limitation of access to formal and occupational educative experiences to this and any other stigmatized population is inadmissible. It is the responsibility of the health personnel to work specifically in eliminating both stigmas: sexual and epileptic, when trying to consolidate the humanistic paradigm of our profession.


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