title: Frequency of hypergraphia in temporal lobe epilepsy: an index of interictal behaviour syndrome.
abstract: Frequency and degree of hypergraphia were studied in order to assess interictal behaviour change in temporal lobe epilepsy. Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy tended to reply more frequently to a standard questionnaire, and wrote extensively (mean: 1301 words) as compared to others (mean: 106 words). The incidence of temporal lobe epilepsy was 73% in patients exhibiting hypergraphia compared to 17% in patients without this trait. These findings suggest that hypergraphia may be a quantitative index of behaviour change in temporal lobe epilepsy.
mesh_terms: D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D014956:Writing