Depression is a serious and frequent comorbidity of epilepsy and other neurological
conditions. Here, we review recent studies on the relationship between epilepsy and …

There is a high incidence of psychiatric comorbidity in people with epilepsy (PWE),
particularly depression. The manifold adverse consequences of comorbid depression have …

Psychiatric comorbidities are 2 to 3 times more frequent in patients with epilepsy than in the
general population. This study aimed to prospectively assess the following:(i) the prevalence …

Despite recent research into the impact of seizure control on mood disorders in epilepsy, it is
often assumed that rates of psychiatric disorders are higher in people with refractory rather …

Objective Fear of having a seizure called anticipatory anxiety of epileptic seizure (AAS),
constitutes a daily life burden but has been rarely studied. Our aim was to assess the …

Objective Neurologic diseases such as stroke are risk factors for new‐onset epilepsy in
older adults. Recent evidence suggests that psychiatric disorders independently predict …

Amygdala kindling is a model of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) with convulsion. The rapid
amygdala kindling has an advantage on quick development of motor seizures and for …

Anxiety in epilepsy has recently become a focus of interest for a number of reasons.
Epidemiological studies have established that anxiety disorders are twice as common in …

This study compared a 9-week individualised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
programme for people with epilepsy (PWE), with a wait-list control. Fifty-nine PWE were …

The purpose of the current paper was to review the empirical literature on the cooccurrence
of panic and epilepsy, in order to determine whether there is an increased risk of panic …