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Chapter 17 - Psychiatric effects of surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2011

By
Steffi Koch-Stoecker
Edited by
Michael R. Trimble  and
Bettina Schmitz
Michael R. Trimble
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, London
Bettina Schmitz
Affiliation:
Vivantes, Humdoldt-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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Summary

This chapter provides an assessment of psychiatric disorders and their development after surgery and the role of personality disorders in hampering surgical success. It explores the question whether or not bad seizure outcome is predicted by pre-existing psychiatric disorders. Concerning postoperative nonepileptic attack disorders (NEADs), there are some reports in the early surveys of the psychiatric effects of epilepsy surgery. Temporal lobe epilepsy itself may be relevant for the impairment of successful personality development. Poor diagnostic differentiation between the psychoses, especially between postictal and interictal ones can have severe consequences for surgical candidates. It was found that all patients with new postoperative psychoses had personality disorders before surgery. As is the case for psychoses, it is also true for affective disorders that the usual psychiatric diagnostic categories do not offer adequate classification for epilepsy patients.

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decision-makingemotional informationfMRItemporal lobe epilepsymesial temporal lobe epilepsyfrontal lobe epilepsymemorytheory of mind
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The Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy , pp. 197 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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