Mood disorders have been described as the commonest psychiatric disorders in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Secondary depression in temporal lobe epilepsy could be interpreted either as an adjustment reaction to a chronic disease or as a limbic dysfunction. To clarify this issue, a controlled study of psychiatric disorders was conducted in different forms of epileptic and non-epileptic chronic conditions.

Interictal mood and personality disorders in temporal lobe epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy / G. I. Perini, C. Tosin, C. Carraro, G. Bernasconi, M. P. Canevini, R. Canger, A. Pellegrini, G. Testa. - In: JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY. - ISSN 0022-3050. - 61:6(1996 Dec), pp. 601-5-605. [10.1136/jnnp.61.6.601]

Interictal mood and personality disorders in temporal lobe epilepsy and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

M.P. Canevini;
1996

Abstract

Mood disorders have been described as the commonest psychiatric disorders in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Secondary depression in temporal lobe epilepsy could be interpreted either as an adjustment reaction to a chronic disease or as a limbic dysfunction. To clarify this issue, a controlled study of psychiatric disorders was conducted in different forms of epileptic and non-epileptic chronic conditions.
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Psychiatric disorders; Temporal lobe epilepsy
Settore MED/26 - Neurologia
Settore MED/39 - Neuropsichiatria Infantile
dic-1996
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