Sexual behavior of a sample of females with epilepsy.
 A sample of 700 female epileptic outpatients was examined between 1985 and 1987.
 The incidence of psychosexual disorders was 18%.
 Epileptic females with psychosexual disorders were compared with epileptic females without sexual disorders and with normal female controls on selected clinical and EEG parameters.
 Epileptic females with sexual disorders showed: lower marriage rates, a longer duration of illness, sexually colored prodromata, predominance of partial complex seizures (83%) and a higher incidence of menstrual abnormalities.
 Hyposexuality and exhibitionism were the psychosexual disorders most frequently noted.
 Temporal lobe EEG abnormalities were significantly higher.
