A clinical analysis demonstrated an increased frequency of athletic-displastic body built in 252 patients with epilepsy and in 204 cases of close relatives in comparison with the control group (151 cases). The data indicate to a correlation between the body built and premorbid characterological traits (162 patients) with clinico-etiological forms of the disease. The author discusses the influence of constitution (type of body built, epileptoidity), premorbid characterological shifts of the organic type on the phenotypical expressions of epilepsy and their relative role in the genesis of different clinico-etiological forms (genuine, symptomatical, generalized, facal) of the disease.
Adolescent Adult