Risk of Epilepsy in Individuals With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study

Yu-Hsiung Chen1, Han-Ting Wei, Ya-Mei Bai

  • 1From the Department of Psychiatry (Y.-H. Chen, Wei, Bai, Hsu, Huang, Su, Li, Lin, Tsai, M.-H. Chen), Taipei Veterans General Hospital; Division of Psychiatry (Bai, Hsu, Huang, Su, Li, Lin, Tsai, M.-H. Chen), School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University; Department of Family Medicine (T.-J. Chen), Taipei Veterans General Hospital; Institute of Hospital and Health Care Administration (T.-J. Chen), National Yang-Ming University; Department of Neurology (Wu), and Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (Wu), Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei; School of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Pan), Chang Gung University; Research Center for Chinese Herbal Medicine and Research Center for Food and Cosmetic Safety (Pan), College of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology; Liver Research Center (Pan), Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan; and Division of Psychiatry (Wei), Kunming Branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

Psychosomatic Medicine
|March 18, 2017
PubMed
Abstract

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