Psychopathology in epilepsy: relationship of seizure type to age at onset.

Study of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and generalized epilepsy revealed no overall seizure type differences, nor overall age-at-onset effects, on MMPI measures of psychopathology. However, statistically significant interactions between seizure type and age at onset were obtained on several MMPI measures, and subsequent analyses revealed that patients with adolescent-onset temporal lobe epilepsy are at higher risk of developing psychological dysfunctions.