Handedness, alexithymia, and focus laterality as risk factors for psychiatric comorbidity in patients with epilepsy.

The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of seizure lateralization, handedness, and alexithymia on psychopathology in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. One hundred five patients were included in the study. The Hopkins Symptom Checklist--90 (SCL-90) and Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-26) were used for psychopathological assessment of patients.

Chronology and evolution of temporal lobe epilepsy and endocrine reproductive dysfunction in women: relationships to side of focus and catameniality.

The current study was carried out to determine the possible associations between side of focus, catameniality, reproductive dysfunction (RD), and chronology variables for epilepsy and concomitant RD in women. Eighty women of childbearing potential with temporal lobe epilepsy were included in the study. Catamenial epilepsy was observed mainly in women with left-sided foci, and a noncatamenial pattern in women with right-sided foci.

Interface between endocrinology and psychiatry in women with epilepsy: analysis of the relationship with comorbid pathology.

This study was carried out to detect a possible association between endocrine pathology, neurological symptoms, and psychiatric variables in women with epilepsy. One hundred and thirty epileptic women with childbearing potential were recruited into the study. The results obtained showed that catamenial epilepsy was observed mainly in women with reproductive dysfunction and normal thyroid function.