Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Personality

Archives of neurology 1977. Temporal lobe epilepsy is not the result of psychiatric illness or fragility of the personality.

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The interictal behavior syndrome in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Temporal lobe epilepsy personality. Temporal lobe epilepsy tle is the most common form of focal partial epilepsy. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common cause of partial or focal seizures. Interictal depression anxiety personality traits and psychological dissociation in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy tle and extra tle.

Swinkels wa van emde boas w kuyk j van dyck r spinhoven p. Epilepsia 2006 47 12 2092 2103. Temporal lobe seizures begin in the temporal lobes of your brain which process emotions and are important for short term memory.

It has unique symptoms and is also associated with personality changes. Quantitative analysis of interictal behavior in temporal lobe epilepsy. Temporal lobe epilepsy is one of 20 different kinds of epilepsy.

There are two types of temporal lobe epilepsy. Each is defined by the part of the temporal lobe in which it originates. Advances in neurology 1991.

Archives of general psychiatry 1975. It can be hard for people with tle to become completely seizure free with seizure medicines alone though medicines may lower the number of seizures. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the type of epilepsy that accounts for the most common form of seizures called focal seizures.

Focal seizures are the most common form of seizure in adults and one of the most common forms of seizures in children. People with drug resistant medial temporal lobe epilepsy have a higher risk for memory and mood difficulties. There are two types of focal seizures each of which has its own distinct signs and symptoms as follows.

To compare personality traits depressive symptoms and neuropsychological profile in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy tle frontal lobe epilepsy fle and healthy controls. There is controversy surrounding whether it is a true neuropsychiatric disorder. Personality traits and depressive symptoms have been described in epileptic patients mostly in temporal lobe epilepsy gastaut geschwind syndrom.

Geschwind syndrome also known as gastaut geschwind is a group of behavioral phenomena evident in some people with temporal lobe epilepsy it is named for one of the first individuals to categorize the symptoms norman geschwind who published prolifically on the topic from 1973 to 1984. Some symptoms of a temporal lobe seizure may be related to these functions including having odd feelings such as euphoria deja vu or fear. Bear dm and fedio p.

Although the theory is controversial there is a link between febrile seizures seizures coinciding with episodes of fever in young children and subsequent temporal lobe epilepsy at least epidemiologically.

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