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We have investigated relationships between hippocampal/temporal lobe neuropathology and psychosis in subjects with temporal lobe epilepsy, paying particular attention to possible differences in density of hippocampal neurons immunoreactive for calcium-binding proteins. There was a trend for a greater prevalence of left handedness in the psychotic (n = 6) than the non-psychotic (n = 26) cases (P = 0.0504). Psychotic cases also differed from non-psychotic ones in having: (1) more focal lesions outside the hippocampus (P = 0.006); (2) less severe CAI neuron loss (P = 0.015); and (3) a trend, after Bonferroni correction, for a higher density of calbindin-immunoreactive neurons in the CA4 (P = 0.022). An additional finding was that dentate granule cell dispersion was significantly associated with the presence of a reduced density of calretinin-immunoreactive neurons in CA4 (P = 0.002) and with a more severe loss of CA4 neurons visible with Nissl stain (P = 0.003). Thus, cases of temporal lobe epilepsy with psychosis were distinguishable on the basis of a higher density of calbindin-reactive neurons in CA4 as well as on more general aspects of their pathology.

Type

Journal article

Journal

Acta Neuropathol

Publication Date

05/2000

Volume

99

Pages

547 - 554

Keywords

Adolescent, Adult, Antibodies, Calbindin 2, Cell Count, Child, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Female, Hippocampus, Humans, Male, Neurons, Parvalbumins, Psychotic Disorders, S100 Calcium Binding Protein G, Temporal Lobe