Abstract
This study examined the relationship patterns of psychological characteristics, clinical and biological indicators, their relationship in the structure of the personality of epilepsy patients. The aim of this work was to study the ratio of biological and clinical and psychological components in the structure of a person suffering from epilepsy. Such characteristics was conducted as the type of disease seizures and duration of the disease were taken into account: simple, complex partial seizures, duration of the disease up to 30 years dominated. The verification of the diagnosis in the patients examined was carried out on the basis of clinical and neurological, psychopathological, pathopsychological, EEG examination and computer tomography data of the brain. The study of biological, clinical and psychological characteristics of epileptic patients was carried out using the method of clinical observation, psychodiagnostic method “Diagnosis of satisfaction of basic needs.” In patients with epilepsy revealed reliable multidimensional clinical and psychological characteristics of satisfaction of the main groups of needs: material needs, security needs, social (interpersonal) needs, the need for recognition, the need for self- expression.The considered characteristics are of interest to doctors, clinical psychologists and other professionals involved in preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitation measures of epilepsy patients.
Highlights
One of the most common psychoneurological diseases is epilepsy
One unprovoked epileptic seizure and the probability of repeated seizures corresponding to the overall risk of recurrence after two unprovoked epileptic seizures in the ten years
Let us consider the classification of epilepsies
Summary
One of the most common psychoneurological diseases is epilepsy. According to the new definition of the International Antiepileptic League 2014, epilepsy is a brain disease that reveals itself in any of the following conditions: 1. At least two unprovoked (or reflex) epileptic seizures with an interval of more than 24 hours. Let us consider the classification of epilepsies. Classification of epileptic seizures (Kyoto, 1981) I. With motor manifestations: focal, motor, jacksonian, versive, postural, phonatory (vocalization or arrest of speech (speech block)). With somatosensory or specific sensory symptoms (simple hallucinations): somatosensory, visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, with vertigo. With psychiatric (mental) symptoms (higher cortical functions impaired): disphatic, dismnestic, cognitive, affective, illusory, structural hallucinations
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