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Differences Between Patients with Temporal Lobe Seizures and Those with Other Forms of Epileptic Attacks
Author(s) -
Rodin E.A.,
Katz M.,
Lennox K.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
epilepsia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.687
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1528-1167
pISSN - 0013-9580
DOI - 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1976.tb03409.x
Subject(s) - temporal lobe , epilepsy , etiology , psychology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , lobe , frontal lobe , audiology , neuroscience , medicine , psychiatry , cognition , pathology
SUMMARY Seventy‐eight patients with temporal lobe type seizures were precisely matched for age, sex, and Wechsler I.Q. levels with patients suffering from other seizure types. Statistically significant differences were established between the groups in regard to treatment response, etiologies, and behavioral variables. Further analysis of the data showed that the behavioral problems of the temporal lobe patients were present only in that group that suffered from more than one seizure type. The temporal lobe epilepsy group having only one seizure type differed from the controls with one seizure type in regard to etiological factors; they actually showed better performance on certain subscales of the WAIS, as well as better employment records. The clinical impression of the temporal lobe epilepsy patient usually presenting more difficulties than other patients with epilepsy results from the fact that the temporal lobe patients have, in the overwhelming majority of instances, more than one seizure type.