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[Psychiatric and psychotherapeutic aspects in epileptology]
1Abteilung Psychotherapie/Psychiatrie, Schweizerisches Epilepsie-Zentrum Zürich. matthias.schmutz@swissepi.ch
Therapeutische Umschau. Revue Therapeutique
|January 31, 2002
Abstract:
Many patients with epilepsy suffer also from coexisting psychological problems. The simultaneous treatment of the epileptic and the psychiatric disorder is necessary for a sufficient anticonvulsant management. Among those psychiatric disorders depressions, psychosis and psychogenic non-epileptic attacks are the most common. The paper presents an overview of classification and the relation between seizures and psychological symptoms and provides some guidelines for psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutical treatment.