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Relationship of epilepsy-related factors to anxiety and depression scores in epileptic children.
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The State Trait Anxiety Inventory and Children's Depression Inventory may be used as a tool to provide information to clinicians and among the epilepsy-related factors, whereas epilepsy duration, seizure frequency, and polytherapy were determined to increase anxiety and depression, age of seizure onset, seizure type, and electroencephalographic findings were not related to Anxiety and depression.Citations
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Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Pediatric Epilepsy
Rochelle Caplan,Prabha Siddarth,Suresh Gurbani,Rebecca Hanson,Ramen Sankar,W. Donald Shields +5 more
TL;DR: This study examined affective disorders, anxiety disorders, and suicidality in children with epilepsy and their association with seizure‐related, cognitive, linguistic, family history, social competence, and demographic variables.
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Psychopathology in Children with Epilepsy: A Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: Clinicians should consider both neurological and psychosocial factors, including the family system, when treating psychopathology in children with epilepsy, especially where behavioral disorders appear to be more generic.
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Epilepsy and anxiety
Blanca Vazquez,Orrin Devinsky +1 more
TL;DR: Increased recognition of anxiety disorders among patients with epilepsy and evaluation of the potential impact of these disorders on functional outcome and the beneficial and detrimental effects of antiepileptic drugs in clinical practice are needed.
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Consensus statement: the evaluation and treatment of people with epilepsy and affective disorders.
John J. Barry,Alan B. Ettinger,Peggy Friel,Frank Gilliam,Cynthia L. Harden,Bruce P. Hermann,Andres M. Kanner,Rochelle Caplan,Sigita Plioplys,Jay A. Salpekar,David W. Dunn,Joan K. Austin,Jana E. Jones +12 more
TL;DR: An expert panel comprising members from the Epilepsy Foundation's Mood Disorders Initiative have composed a Consensus Statement, which focuses on depressive disorders in particular and reviews the appearance and treatment of the disorder in children, adolescents, and adults.
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Academic Underachievement Among Children With Epilepsy Proportion Exceeding Psychometric Criteria for Learning Disability and Associated Risk Factors
TL;DR: Although children with earlier seizure onset, generalized nonabsence seizures, and comorbid ADHD appear to be at increased risk for some types of LD by some definitions, these findings largely suggest that all children with epilepsy should be considered vulnerable to LD.
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Depression in Epilepsy: Etiology, Phenomenology, and Treatment
TL;DR: A history of depression or depressive symptomatology has been reported in up to two‐thirds of patients with medically intractable epilepsy, whereas community studies have demonstrated affective disorder only in a quarter of these patients.
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Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in Pediatric Epilepsy Patients
Alan B. Ettinger,Deborah M. Weisbrot,Edith E. Nolan,Kenneth D. Gadow,Susan A. Vitale,Mary R. Andriola,Nicholas J. Lenn,Gerald P. Novak,Bruce P. Hermann +8 more
TL;DR: Assessment of symptoms of anxiety and depression among pediatric patients with epilepsy found high levels of concern for depression and anxiety among children with epilepsy.
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Phenomenology of Depression in Epilepsy
TL;DR: The depression in patients with epilepsy represents the outcome of multiple factors in genetically predisposed individuals, and patients receiving phenobarbital or carbamazepine were both less depressed and less anxious.
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Symptoms of depression in adolescents with epilepsy.
TL;DR: Adolescents' attitudes, attributions, and satisfaction with family relationships are related to depression and should be assessed in the clinical setting and the relationship between locus of control and depression fits the learned helplessness model of depression and suggests the need for interventions to promote an internal locu of control in adolescents with epilepsy.