[Affective disorders of temporal lobe epilepsy patients according to follow-up findings]

An analysis of the clinical time-course of affective disorders in the presence of temporal epilepsy (100 patients) has shown that at the initial stages of the disease epileptic paroxysms prevailed over affective disorders. With the further development of the epileptic process the progression of the paroxysmal symptomatology correlated with the deterioration of affective disturbances. In the progressive course of the disease the affect becomes more monotonous and viscous. The frequency of affective disorders (dysphorias) increases and prevails over the incidence of epileptic attacks. An early institution of a combined therapy (combination of anticonvulsants with psychotropic drugs) at the initial stage of the disease effectively controls affective disturbances, which somewhat palliates the development of their severe forms at the subsequent stages of the disease course.