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Psychiatric Assessment in Patients with Mild Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Joint Authors
Gambardella, Antonio
De Fazio, Pasquale
Bruni, Antonella
Martino, Iolanda
Caligiuri, Maria Eugenia
Vaccaro, Maria Grazia
Trimboli, Michele
Segura Garcia, Cristina
Labate, Angelo
Source
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-01-14
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Objectives.
The findings of previous studies focused on personality disorders in epileptic patients are difficult to interpret due to nonhomogeneous samples and noncomparable methods.
Here, we aimed at studying the personality profile in patients with mild temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) with psychiatric comorbidity.
Materials and Methods.
Thirty-five patients with mTLE (22 males, mean age 40.7±12.1) underwent awake and sleep EEG, 3T brain MRI, and an extensive standardized diagnostic neuropsychiatric battery: Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R), Beck Depression Inventory-2, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.
Drug history was collected in detail.
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis was performed on TCI-R data, while all other clinical and psychological variables were compared across the resulting clusters.
Results.
Scores of Harm Avoidance (HA), Reward Dependence (RD), Persistence (P), Cooperativeness (C), and Self-Transcendence (ST) allowed the identification of two clusters, describing different personality subtypes.
Cluster 1 was characterized by an early onset, more severe anxiety traits, and combined drug therapy (antiepileptic drug and Benzodiazepine/Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) compared to Cluster 2.
Conclusions.
Our findings suggest that different personality traits may play a role in determining the clinical outcome in patients with mTLE.
Specifically, lower scores of HA, RD, P, C, and ST were associated with worse clinical outcome.
Thus, personality assessment could serve as an early indicator of greater disease severity, improving the management of mTLE.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bruni, Antonella& Martino, Iolanda& Caligiuri, Maria Eugenia& Vaccaro, Maria Grazia& Trimboli, Michele& Segura Garcia, Cristina…[et al.]. 2019. Psychiatric Assessment in Patients with Mild Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Behavioural Neurology،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1128980
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bruni, Antonella…[et al.]. Psychiatric Assessment in Patients with Mild Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Behavioural Neurology No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1128980
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bruni, Antonella& Martino, Iolanda& Caligiuri, Maria Eugenia& Vaccaro, Maria Grazia& Trimboli, Michele& Segura Garcia, Cristina…[et al.]. Psychiatric Assessment in Patients with Mild Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Behavioural Neurology. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1128980
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1128980