FORENSIC POINT-OF-VIEW IN EPILEPSY, ABOUT ONE CASE

The existence in the night of four strangling attempts clinicaly stere otyped, at patient with a cerebral post-traumatic atrophy, associated with an electric sleep comitiality (Holter EEG) founded at the crime h our, allows the approach of the imputability of the crime to epilepsy. The literature on epilepsy, sleep, associated psychiatric disorders a nd criminology is discussed. A prospective study using a continuous EE G recording during the psychiatric expertise of some clinical selectio ned crimes is proposed.