INSET: Inventory of Neppe of Symptoms of Epilepsy
and the Temporal Lobe
The INSET involves screening for possible
temporal lobe, epileptic and organic symptoms and
spells. Thereafter the symptoms are categorized into
several headers namely nonspecific symptoms, possible
and controversial temporal lobe symptoms, seizure
related and other focal features. The test is based
on the subject and / or his family responding to questions
which are thereafter elaborated in greater clinical
detail.
The INSET has two sections: a broad
demographic and screening section, and a second specific
question section where responses are at two time levels:
current plus the most common frequency in the remote
past. The patient ranks frequency from "never"
through "more than daily " (i.e. 0-6). Questions
in the INSET have been based on the earlier Neppe
Temporal Lobe Questionnaire which itself derived from
an intensive literature review on the topic. (Neppe,
1983; 1984A, 1984B)
View the Short INSET.