作者: W. Curt LaFrance , Andres M. Kanner , Bruce Hermann
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7742(08)00020-2
关键词: Epilepsy 、 Ictal 、 Psychosocial 、 Anxiety 、 Personality changes 、 Cognition 、 Psychology 、 Psychiatry 、 Clinical psychology
摘要: Psychiatric disorders can be identified in 25–50% of patients with epilepsy, higher prevalence among poorly controlled seizures. These disturbances include depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders, cognitive, and personality changes occurring the interictal or ictal/postictal states. In this chapter, we describe four areas focus women epilepsy: comorbid primary psychiatric processes, integrated symptoms secondary to stigma psychosocial consequences nonepileptic