Emotions and Personality in Complex Partial Seizures
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Vol. 45 (3) , 141-148
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000287940
Abstract
Using the emotion profile index (EPI) and the Bear and Fedio personality inventory (PI), we investigated the influence of hemispheric localization of epileptic foci on emotions and personality in 24 patients with complex partial seizure. On the EPI, left patients showed a paranoid and depressed personality and gave a negative image of themselves, whereas right patients rated themselves in a positive way. On the PI, left and right patients showed an epileptic behavioral syndrome. Left patients were more depressed, guilt-ridden and aggressive than right patients.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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