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.
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机译：这项研究的目的是使用Sachdev and Waxman（1981）开发的范例确定超描写对颞叶癫痫的特异性。向138名患者发送了标准刺激信，并检查了颞叶癫痫（N = 80），无（N = 31）和混合性癫痫发作（N = 13）的患者组的反应率。对于那些有反应的患者，进一步的分析涉及每个反应的单词数以及假定的颞叶癫痫发作性行为综合症的任何定性指标的存在/不存在。该结果是根据当代的超描写法定义进行解释的，并且与涉及颞叶癫痫的性格和行为变化的大量文献有关。
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