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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1993 May; 56(5): 556–559. | PMCID: PMC1015019 |
A clinical study of hypergraphia in epilepsy. T Okamura, M Fukai, A Yamadori, M Hidari, H Asaba, and T Sakai Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Medical College, Japan. Abstract Fifteen patients with epilepsy and hypergraphia were compared with 32 patients with epilepsy but without hypergraphia. The number of previous psychiatric episodes, the number of Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory (WPSI) items indicating emotional maladjustment, and the number of CT scan abnormalities were significantly greater in the hypergraphic patients than in the non-hypergraphic patients. Cognitive performance, EEG laterality and the scores of WPSI items related to the psychological stress of seizures did not differ significantly between the two groups. Hypergraphia reflects changes in emotional responsiveness secondary to organic temporal lobe lesions. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (700K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References. These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article. - Waxman SG, Geschwind N. Hypergraphia in temporal lobe epilepsy. Neurology. 1974 Jul;24(7):629–636. [PubMed]
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