Relationship of seizure variables to personality disorders in epilepsy
| Autor: | Mario F. Mendez, J L Taylor, R C Doss, R Arguello |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male media_common.quotation_subject Electroencephalography Personality Disorders Epilepsy Seizures medicine Personality Humans media_common Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Brain Diseases medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Brain medicine.disease Control subjects Personality disorders Frontal Lobe Psychiatry and Mental health Frontal lobe Psychiatric status rating scales Secondarily generalized seizures Female Neurology (clinical) Epilepsy Tonic-Clonic business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences. 5(3) |
| ISSN: | 0895-0172 |
| Popis: | Among epileptic patients, personality disorders may be associated with specific seizure manifestations. In an epilepsy clinic, we identified 42 idiopathic epilepsy patients diagnosed with various DSM-III-R personality disorders, including borderline, atypical or mixed, explosive, and dependent. When compared with 42 age- and sex-matched epileptic control subjects on six seizure variables, the personality disorder group had more patients with epileptic auras (P = 0.001), particularly "cephalic" auras, and fewer with secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures (P < 0.05). These findings suggest that the experience of epileptic auras contributes to the development of personality disorders, especially when auras are not masked by secondarily generalized seizures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|