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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 108, No. 5

Article | November 01, 1951

ASTROCYTOMA OF THE LEFT TEMPORAL LOBE Contribution to the Problem of the Psychopathology of Epileptic Personality Disorder, and to the Problem of Semantic Aphasia

EMIL GUENTHER WINKLER; GERALD V. FREIMAN; SOLOMON S. LIEBERMAN

Am J Psychiatry 1951;108:343-350.

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The State University of New York, State University Medical Center at New York, College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.

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The case reported is that of an astrocytoma of the left temporal lobe in a 19-year-old boy with epileptic seizures, the typical epileptic personality changes, and a deficiency in the semantic sphere. This case is considered as a contribution to the development of semantic aphasia and semantic alexia as well as to that of psychopathology of the so-called epileptic personality disorder.

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