Abstract
A series of young adults with temporal lobe epilepsy included 36% with psychological complications. The incidence of overt psychosis was 11%. Psychopathology was more common in subjects with left temporal lobe spike foci (43%) and in males (4%), but these trends did not attain statistical significance. Psychological complications became manifest in adolescence in 85% of the affected cases, and were more likely (p < 0.01) to occur when seizures began in the second 5 years of life. Although seizures nearly always antedated psychological problems, the onsets of epilepsy and psychological complications did not directly correlate (p = 0.43).
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