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+ | Stephen, L. J., Wishart, A. & Brodie, M. J. Psychiatric side effects and antiepileptic drugs: Observations from prospective audits. Epilepsy Behav. 71, 73–78 (2017). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28551500/ |
Latest revision as of 22:15, 11 June 2021
Patients with epilepsy have higher rates of anxiety and depression than the general population and those with chronic conditions, and especially high in those patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy. Psychiatric symptoms are more common in patients with focal epilepsy compared to generalized epilepsy (Stephen et al, 2017).
Antiepileptic medication side-effects
Seizure incidence in psychopharmacology
References
Stephen, L. J., Wishart, A. & Brodie, M. J. Psychiatric side effects and antiepileptic drugs: Observations from prospective audits. Epilepsy Behav. 71, 73–78 (2017). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28551500/