en رويكرد عصب زيست شناختي Approach to biological neural پژوهشي Original Research Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objective</strong>: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) could cause various emotional symptoms due to the damages imposed on the temporal lobe. This study aimed at comparing emotional processing between patients with early- and late-onset TLE and a healthy group.<br> <strong>Methods</strong>: In a cross-sectional study, after a definitive diagnosis of TLE, 60 patients were compared with 60 healthy controls without any epilepsy to identify emotional-processing styles in them. The research instruments were the Emotional Processing Scale and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5)-based psychiatric interview. The obtained data were analyzed using a multivariate analysis of variance by SPSS.<br> <strong>Results</strong>: The present study results suggested significant differences in emotional processing between the investigated epileptic and non-epileptic groups (P<0.01). Besides, emotional processing indicated significant differences in intrusion, the lack of attunement, and dissociation subscales between patients with early-onset TLE, compared to those with late-onset TLE.<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The obtained data revealed more emotional processing dysfunction in patients affected by TLE, compared to the non-epileptics. Besides, in some subscales of emotional processing, there was more malfunctioning in the early-onset TLE group, compared to the late-onset TLE group.</div> Epilepsy, Temporal lobe epilepsy, Emotions, Early-Onset, Late-Onset 47 56 http://jpcp.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-688-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Sepideh Batebi s.batebi@sbmu.ac.ir 0000-0001-9049-5606 No Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Behrooz Dolatshahi dolatshahibehrooz98@gmail.com 0000-0003-2230-9562 Yes Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mojtaba Azimian mazimian@yahoo.com 0000-0001-9985-7052 No Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.