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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Borderline Personality Disorder
Wed, 02/17/2010 - 09:12Comments
Re: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Borderline Personality Disorder
Submitted by ontopofit on Mon, 2010-03-29 - 12:32
Re: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Borderline Personality Disorder
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2010-03-29 - 08:45
Changes in mood and/or behavior can happen in different types of epilepsy, not just temporal lobe epilepsy. The frontal lobe is also involved in regulating different types of behavior/mood. It's often hard to tell which behaviors are realted to seizures, underlying brain injury, or something else. One key is to track symptoms and note the length of changes, when they occur, what occurs, do the same symptoms happen each time or are they very different? Try using the seizure diary on the site to track symptoms. Then you can print out a report to share with the doctor. Hope this helps get some answers!
Epi_help
Epi_help Resource Specialist
Changes in mood and/or behavior can happen in different types of epilepsy, not just temporal lobe epilepsy. The frontal lobe is also involved in regulating different types of behavior/mood. It's often hard to tell which behaviors are realted to seizures, underlying brain injury, or something else. One key is to track symptoms and note the length of changes, when they occur, what occurs, do the same symptoms happen each time or are they very different? Try using the seizure diary on the site to track symptoms. Then you can print out a report to share with the doctor. Hope this helps get some answers!
Epi_help
Epi_help Resource Specialist
Re: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Borderline Personality Disorder
Submitted by Corinna on Mon, 2010-03-22 - 14:55
EEgs can benormal in TLe often the neural firing is too deep in the brain to register on EEg and if you are not having an actual sz when the EEg is taken it can give a false negative--ie it says you dont have E but you really do. If youe E is coming from rt side of brain it will more likely than not affect MOOD and BEHAVOIR. Left suide TLe is more schizo like w hallucinations. Corinna