Changes in depression, anxiety, anger, and personality after resective surgery for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy: A 2-year follow-up study

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-30

  Meldolesi, G N ^a,d   Di Gennaro, G ^a   Quarato, P P ^a   Esposito, V ^a,c   Grammaldo, L G ^a   Morosini, P ^b   Cascavilla, I ^b   Picardi, A ^b  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d 'Neurone' Foundation for Research in Neuropsychobiology and Clinical Neurosciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anger; Anxiety; Depression; Personality; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCOME; INTROVERSION; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MMPI; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERSONALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 35348960470     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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