The relationship of psychological, clinical and biological components in epilepsy

¹ National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University, Medicine Institute, Chair of nervous diseases and psychiatry, Ulyanov Str., 430032 Saransk, 26A, Russia
² Perm Military Institute of National Guard Troops, Chair of Cynology, Gremyachyi log str., 1, 614112, Perm, Russia
³ Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Chair of Chemistry, 9 Institutskiy per., 141701, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia

^* Corresponding author: zykova.sv@rambler.ru

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.