Motivational-emotional disorders in astrocytoma of the temporal lobe
Madorskiĭ, V.A.; Filichkina, I.G.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 89(6): 82-85
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 2781951 Document Number: 330751
Motivational and emotional disorders were studied in 42 patients with temporal lobe astrocytomas. The peculiarities of intensity and direction of biological motivations and emotions, background moods, and several personality traits were studied in relation to the tumor localisation in anterior parts of mediobasal and baso-convex structures of the right of left lobes. The course of motivational and emotional disorders was followed at different stages of the disease and postsurgical period.