Millon clinical multiaxial inventory assessments of patients manifesting either psychogenic or epileptic seizures
| Autor: | Lawrence W. Batzel, Paul M. Thompson, Robert J. Wilkus |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
medicine.diagnostic_test General Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Electroencephalography medicine.disease Psychogenic Seizure Epilepsy Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory medicine Personality Anxiety Psychogenic disease Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Psychology media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Epilepsy. 5:226-230 |
| ISSN: | 0896-6974 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0896-6974(05)80121-5 |
| Popis: | Previous investigations utilizing the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory have observed personality differences between patients with epilepsy (ES) and those with psychogenic seizures (PS). This research utilized a shorter, easier-to-administer instrument, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), to evaluate 27 PS patients and 22 ES patients. Based on the results of EEG/video monitoring, patients were assigned to either strictly ES or strictly PS groups. PS patients scored significantly higher on MCMI Axis I scale of Anxiety, Somatoform, and Dysthymia as well as the Axis II pathological personality disorder, Borderline. Only the Axis I scales, however, showed clinically elevated base rate scores. Classification rules developed from these results correctly indentified 74% of the PS and 72% of the ES patients. These results suggest that MCMI may be a useful instrument for the evaluation of patients with PS. |
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