Mood and Anxiety Disorders and Suicidality in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Focal Epilepsy: An Analysis of a Complex Comorbidity.
Andres M KannerAnita S SaportaDong H KimJohn J BarryHamada AltalibHope OmotolaNathalie JetteTerence J O'BrienSiddhartha NadkarniMelodie R WinawerMichael SperlingJacqueline A FrenchBassel Abou-KhalilBrian AlldredgeMartina BebinGregory D CascinoAndrew J ColeMark J CookKamil DetynieckiOrrin DevinskyDennis DlugosEdward FaughtDavid FickerMadeline FieldsBarry GidalMichael GelfandSimon GlynnJonathan J HalfordSheryl HautManu HegdeManisha Gupte HolmesReetta KalviainenJoon KangPavel KleinRobert C KnowltonKaarkuzhali KrishnamurthyRuben KuznieckyPatrick KwanDaniel H LowensteinLara MarcuseKimford J MeadorScott MintzerHeath R PardoeKristen L ParkPatricia PenovichRani K SinghErnest SomervilleCharles A SzaboJerzy P SzaflarskiLiu Lin ThioEugen TrinkaJorge G Burneonull nullPublished in: Neurology (2022)
In patients with newly diagnosed focal epilepsy, the prevalence of mood, anxiety disorders and suicidality are higher than in the general population and comparable to those of patients with established epilepsy. Their recognition at the time of the initial epilepsy evaluation is of the essence.