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R Altenstein

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PubMed1987

[Structural differentiation of psychological performances in epilepsy patients].

Investigating the specific of psychic performance disorders in epileptics structural aspects in addition to quantitative performance differences are considerable. We compared psychometrically obtained performance structures of epileptic children and adults and of parallelised healthy control persons. It became evident, that the performance differentiation hypothesis is to corroborate also in epileptic patients. The psychic performance structure of epileptics is characterized by a lower differentiation level of the basis functions underlining the performances. Our factor analytic investigations emphasize the importance of deceleration of psychic/psychomotoric speed in epileptics as primary basic disorder.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1985

[Psychometric studies on the specificity of psychological performance disorders of epileptic patients].

Using a psychological test battery for registration of psychic/psychomotoric speed and flexibility/perseveration we examined 78 epileptic patients with different forms of epilepsy and the same number of brain healthy control persons, parallelised in sex, age, education, profession and intelligence. The registrated data were varianz-, correlation- and factoranalised. We found a deceleration of psychic/psychomotoric speed as a primary basic disorder in epileptics. Decreases of flexibility independent of speed were not ascertainable.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

[Relationship between automatically analyzed quantitative EEG data and psychological performance parameters in patients with epilepsy].

A report is given on results of comprehensive studies in which significant positive correlations between automatically analysed parameters reflecting the frequency behaviour of the EEG background activity and psychometrically recorded relatively complex psychic and psychomotoric tempo performances as well as some partial aspects of the re-adjustment capability in epileptics were found. EEG indicator values could be ascertained which point to psychic performance disturbances in epileptics.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

[Follow-up examination of neurotic patients after dynamic group therapy with the FPI and a change questionnaire].

On the basis of the FPI and a questionnaire about the occurrence of changes the therapeutic effects of a dynamic group psychotherapy were checked. 63.6 per cent of the patient showed positive results in the FPI after four months. In some checkups (13 months after the end of the therapy) 40 per cent of these FPI patients also showed positive social changes while in 23.3 per cent no or negative changes in the social sphere were found. The 36.7 per cent FPI-negative patients fall into 16.7 per cent socially positive and 20 per cent unchanged or negative patients. The study shows that there is no verified agreement between the results of FPI and the behaviour in the social sphere.

Adult↗