TY - JOUR T1 - Hypergraphia in epilepsy: is there a specificity to temporal lobe epilepsy? JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 848 LP - 853 DO - 10.1136/jnnp.46.9.848 VL - 46 IS - 9 AU - B P Hermann AU - S Whitman AU - P Arntson Y1 - 1983/09/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/46/9/848.abstract N2 - The purpose of this investigation was to determine the specificity of hypergraphia to temporal lobe epilepsy using the paradigm developed by Sachdev and Waxman (1981). One hundred and thirty-eight patients were sent a standard stimulus letter and the response rates were examined for the patient groups with temporal lobe epilepsy (N = 80), and without (N = 31), and mixed seizure types (N = 13). For those patients who responded, additional analyses involved the number of words per response and the presence/absence of any qualitative indices of the postulated interictal behavioural syndrome of temporal lobe epilepsy. The results were interpreted in the light of the contemporary definitions of hypergraphia and were related to the larger literature concerned with personality and behavioural change in temporal lobe epilepsy. ER -