Kaminer Y, Apter A, Aviv A, Lerman P, Tyano S
Department of Child Psychiatry, Bradley Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1988 Jun;77(6):640-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1988.tb05182.x.
Although high rates of psychopathology in children and adolescents suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) have been reported in the literature, the subject remains controversial. In this investigation we made a psychiatric study of 26 adolescents with TLE using a detailed structure interview and rigorous diagnostic criteria. These were compared to 26 matched controls suffering from chronic bronchial asthma (BA). In neither group was there a high rate of specific psychiatric illness, although many adolescents in both samples showed moderate to severe depression. We conclude that TLE may not be a specific cause of psychopathology in adolescence, and that the depression might result from the suffering involved in chronic illness.
尽管文献报道称颞叶癫痫（TLE）患儿和青少年中精神病理学发生率较高，但该问题仍存在争议。在本研究中，我们使用详细的结构化访谈和严格的诊断标准，对26名患有TLE的青少年进行了精神病学研究。将他们与26名匹配的患有慢性支气管哮喘（BA）的对照组进行比较。两组中特定精神疾病的发生率均不高，尽管两个样本中的许多青少年都表现出中度至重度抑郁。我们得出结论，TLE可能不是青少年精神病理学的特定原因，而且抑郁可能是由慢性病所带来的痛苦导致的。
