Psychological complications of temporal lobe epilepsy.
A series of young adults with temporal lobe epilepsy included 36% with psychological complications. The incidence of overt psychosis was 11%. Psychopathology was more common in subjects with left temporal lobe spike foci (43%) and in males (42%), but these trends did not attain statistical significance. Psychological complications became manifest in adolescence in 85% of the affected cases, and were more likely (p less than 0.01) to occur when seizures began in the second 5 years of life. Although seizures nearly always antedated psychological problems, the onsets of epilepsy and psychological complications did not directly correlated (p = 0.43).
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology