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The objective of this study was to investigate the controversial notion of \u201cepileptic personality,\u201d a series of supposedly specific personality traits of people with epilepsy (PWE).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>For this purpose, 29 individuals with Mesial Temporal lobe Epilepsy (MTLE) and 23 with Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) as confirmed by electroencephalography (EEG), MRI scans and clinical examination, underwent a thorough neuropsychological and personality assessment. The resulting neuropsychological profiles were statistically analyzed considering possible personality disorders, character traits, cognitive and linguistic deviations from 20 healthy controls (HC).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our findings suggest accumulative cognitive and linguistic deficits in individuals with epilepsy compared to controls. It is possible that these might be misinterpreted as personality disorders. Specifically, personality traits (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.049) and verbal fluency (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.013), were significantly different between PWEs and controls. Also, the type of epilepsy and lateralization seem to affect executive function (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.049) and pragmatology scores (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001), exhibiting differences in subgroup analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Different theories are considered as plausible pathophysiological explanations for the aforementioned differences. 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