The Temporolimbic Personality: A cross-national study
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, vol.22, no.4, pp.211-224, 2008 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 22 Issue: 4
- Publication Date: 2008
- Doi Number: 10.4321/s0213-61632008000400004
- Journal Name: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
- Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.211-224
- Istanbul University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
Background and objectives: Early investigators claimed that temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) was associated with a personality traits and psychiatric symptoms collectively known as the interictal behavioral syndrome or Geschwind's syndrome. Interictal behavioral alterations associated with TLE included affective dysregulation; irritability and impulsive aggression; anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms paranoia; abnormal patterns of social interaction; schizophrenic-like symptoms and dissociative states; hypergraphia; and hyperreligiosity. A number of psychiatric disorders are known to have subclinical variants. Are recurrent temperolimbic seizure-like events (as determined by a self-report symptom inventory-the LSCL-Limbic System Checklist) among non-clinical subjects also associated with TLE-related psychiatric symptoms/syndromes and personality features?