Interictal behaviour in hospitalised temporal lobe epileptics: relationship to idiopathic psychiatric syndromes.
Temporal lobe epileptics undergoing psychiatric hospitalisation were contrasted with patients suffering idiopathic psychiatric syndromes or other epilepsies. Quantitative ratings from blind interviews conducted according to a protocol confirmed the appearance of a statistically distinctive behavioural profile, including the desire for social affiliation, circumstantiality, religious and philosophic interests, and deepened affects, among the temporal lobe epileptics.
D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology