Objective: The aim of the work was to study personality disorder in epileptic, finding out correlation
between personality disorder and epilepsy. Methods: 86 participants in military psychiatric hospital are classified
into two groups 43 of them had epilepsy (case), 43 no epilepsy (controls) by EEG finding & confirmed by clinical
finding. Result: there's no significant difference in both groups (case, control) in demographics, there's statistically
significantly younger age of presentation of epilepsy with longer duration of epilepsy than epileptic without
personality p value 0.01. Conclusion: epilepsy is aneurological disorder may affect psychiatric state among
epileptic patients and has amore disordered psychiatric triat than healthy individuals. |
