Summary: Study of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and generalized epilepsy revealed no overall seizure type differences, nor overall age-at-onset effects, on MMPI measures of psychopathology. However, statistically significant interactions between seizure type and age at onset were obtained on several MMPI measures, and subsequent analyses revealed that patients with adolescent-onset temporal lobe epilepsy are at higher risk of developing psychological dysfunctions.

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Les auteurs étudient les relations susceptibles d'existerentre les manifestations psychopathologiques des sujets présentant une épilepsie temporale ou une épilepsie généralisée et le type etl'âge de debut de leurs crises. lis constatent que certaines données du MMPI mettent en évidence des relations statistique-ment significatives et, notamment, que les sujets ayant présenté une épilepsie du lobe temporal au cours de leur adolescence ont un risque plus grand de presenter une dysfonction psychologique.

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Patienten mit Temporallappenepilepsie und generalisierter Epilepsie zeigten keine Unterschiede im Anfallsbild, sie unterschieden sich nicht in Anabhängigkeit vom Alter bei Anfallsbeginn bei den psychopathologischen Untersuchungen mithilfe des MMPI. Hingegen wurden statistisch signifikante Interaktionen zwischen Anfallstyp und Alter bei Anfallsbeginn hinsichtlich verschiedener MMPI-Werte gefunden. Die Analysen zeigten, daß Patienten mit Temporallapenepilepsie und Anfallsbeginn in der Adoleszenz besonders gefährdet sind, psycho-logische Dysfunktionen zu entwickeln.

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