[Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy].

[Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy]. Presse Med. 2017 Dec 20;: Authors: de Toffol B, Hingray C, Biberon J, El-Hage W Abstract Psychiatric comorbidities are overrepresented in people suffering from epilepsy in comparison to the general population. There is a two-way link between epilepsy and psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric symptomatology is specific in epilepsy, according to the chronology of symptoms in relation to the seizure (inter, pre- or postictal). Easy to use, fast and efficient self-administered questionnaires are available to evaluate depressive (NDDI-E) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD-7) symptoms. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are not proconvulsant and can be safely used to treat depressive or anxious disorders. PMID: 29275022 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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