Anxiety is common and independently associated with clinical features of epilepsy.

CONCLUSION: Anxiety symptoms, often without concomitant depression, were highly prevalent in this epilepsy sample and independently associated with focal/unknown epilepsy and mesial temporal sclerosis. These results strongly support the value of screening specifically for anxiety in the epilepsy clinic, to direct patients to appropriate treatment. PMID: 29908386 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29908386?dopt=Abstract

Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - June 13, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Munger Clary HM, Snively BM, Hamberger MJ Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: research