| publication name | Personality profile in epileptic patient |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abd. Alnaser A. Mourad, Ibrahim A. AlAfify, Hussein El. El-Shiekh, Mohammed R. El. Feky, Mohammed M.El. Hamady and Mohammed |
| year | 2016 |
| keywords | personality disorder, epileptic patient, EEG |
| journal | New York Science Journal |
| volume | 9 |
| issue | Not Available |
| pages | 8 |
| publisher | Not Available |
| Local/International | International |
| Paper Link | http://www.sciencepub.net/newyork/ny090316/005_30211nys090316_24_31.pdf |
| Full paper | download |
| Supplementary materials | Not Available |
Abstract
Objective: The aim of the work was to study personality disorder in epileptic, finding out correlation between personality disorder and epilepsy. Methods: 86 participants in military psychiatric hospital are classified into two groups 43 of them had epilepsy (case), 43 no epilepsy (controls) by EEG finding & confirmed by clinical finding. Result: there's no significant difference in both groups (case, control) in demographics, there's statistically significantly younger age of presentation of epilepsy with longer duration of epilepsy than epileptic without personality p value 0.01. Conclusion: epilepsy is aneurological disorder may affect psychiatric state among epileptic patients and has amore disordered psychiatric triat than healthy individuals.