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 M. D.1,
GERALD V. FREIMAN M. D.1, , and
SOLOMON S. LIEBERMAN M. S.1
1 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.
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.
