Surgery is widely accepted as an effective therapy for selected individuals with medically
refractory epilepsy. Numerous studies in the past 20 years have reported seizure freedom …

Psychiatric disorders can be identified in 25–50% of patients with epilepsy, with higher
prevalence among patients with poorly controlled seizures. These disturbances include …

Purpose: The objective of this systematic review was to identify:(1) prevalence and severity
of psychiatric conditions before and after resective epilepsy surgery,(2) incidence of …

The association of temporal lobe epilepsy with depression and other neuropsychiatric
disorders has been known since the early beginnings of neurology and psychiatry …

PURPOSE: The association between pre-surgical psychiatric disorders (PDs) and worse
seizure outcome in patients with refractory epilepsy submitted to surgery has been …

Objective The literature is sparse on the complex interrelationships between stressors,
depression, anxiety disorders, and epilepsy. We hypothesized that a relationship exists …

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 …

Background The currently available evidence is unclear in regard to psychiatric outcomes of
temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) in patients with comorbid psychiatric disorders (PD). Aim To …

Less than 3% of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgical outcome studies have investigated
the psychiatric sequelae and morbidity associated with surgery. This is disproportionate to …

Temporal lobe epilepsy patients (n= 48) and healthy controls (n= 69) underwent structured
psychiatric interview at baseline and 4 years later to characterize the course of DSM‐IV Axis …