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Limbic Lobe Epilepsy with Paranoid Symptoms: Analysis of Clinical Features and Psychological Tests
Author(s) -
Onuma Teiichi
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1983.tb00326.x
Subject(s) - rorschach test , psychology , epilepsy , limbic system , wechsler adult intelligence scale , audiology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience , medicine , cognition , central nervous system
Ten cases of limbic epilepsy with paranoid symptoms were compared with 10 cases of limbic epilepsy without paranoid symptoms and 10 case3 of primary generalized epilepsy (GTC). The clinical features (onset of seizures, their duration, combination with GTC, seizure control, social adaptability and laterality of foci) and psychological tests (WAIS, Bender‐Gestalt, MPI, Y‐G, Rorschach) were analyzed. Paranoid epileptics showed poor social adaptation in spite of the seizures being better controlled. They had a low performance IQ, a low object assembly test and a low picture completion te3t in WAIS. They were less extroversive in MPI, less aggressive and more introversive in the Yatabe‐Gilford test. In the Rorschach test, they had a high color response and a form response but the form level was low.