Epilepsy and verbosity.

Stories were elicited from 29 epileptic patients with generalized, simple partial, and complex partial seizures with bilateral, right, or left foci, and from 32 persons in two control groups. Four older epileptic patients with long histories of left complex partial seizures were verbose. Their stories involved trivial and subjective details, consistent with circumstantiality and suggesting the substrate for a hallucinatory syndrome.