Psychiatric test assessment of patients with psychomotor epilepsy.
The authors evaluated the psychiatric status of 31 patients who had temporal lobectomies and 6 patients who received implantation of depth electrodes for relief of epileptic seizures. Results showed a general postoperative improvement in overall psychopathology (measured by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale) and in depression in particular; however, depression tended to recur with the passage of time after lobectomy.
D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011599:Psychopathology; D011612:Psychosurgery; D012647:Self-Assessment