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Relationship between Interictal Psychopathology and the Type of Epilepsy

Results of a Survey in General Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

J. Edeh*
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital and The Institute of Psychiatry
B. Toone
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital and The Institute of Psychiatry
*
Department of Psychological Medicine, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS

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Psychiatric morbidity was assessed in a sample of 88 adult epileptic patients drawn from general practices in South London. Using the Clinical Interview Schedule, 48% emerged as psychiatric cases. When either total CIS score or caseness status was used for comparison, group differences were evident; patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and focal non-TLE did not differ, but each was significantly more impaired than those with primary generalised epilepsy. The groups also differed in their psychiatric symptom profiles. The results suggest that the increased prevalence of interictal psychopathology commonly associated with TLE may also be a feature of other forms of focal epilepsy.

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