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  • Title: On the psychopathology of unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy.
    Author: Feddersen B, Herzer R, Hartmann U, Gaab MR, Runge U.
    Journal: Epilepsy Behav; 2005 Feb; 6(1):43-9. PubMed ID: 15652733.
    Abstract:
    Personality adjustment of patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) was investigated in the light of special characteristics of the epilepsy process, psychosocial stressors, and the cognitive status of the patients. Thirty-seven patients with medically intractable unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy (16-55 years of age; 20 right temporal and 17 left temporal foci) were examined with standardized personality inventories (FPI, STAI, IPC, TSK) supplemented by a rating scale evaluated by the neuropsychologist (GEWLE). Patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy were characterized by increased emotional dependency, less externally judged composedness, increased depressive drive and mood, increased nervousness, increased search for information and exchange of disease experience, and greater tendency to persevere (P < 0.05). Cognitive status and psychosocial status did not significantly differ. The evaluation of personality adjustment contributes to the lateralization of the epileptogenic focus and reveals interesting patterns in the preoperative diagnostic puzzle, and in addition provides a strategy to individualize psychotherapeutic strategies.
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