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Psychiatric test assessment of patients with psychomotor epilepsy

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.7.844

The authors evaluated the psychiatric status of 31 patients who had temporal lobectomies and 6 patients who received implantation of depth electrodes for relief of epileptic seizures. Results showed a general postoperative improvement in overall psychopathology (measured by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale) and in depression in particular; however, depression tended to recur with the passage of time after lobectomy.

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