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The suicide rate of epilepsy
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton Medical School, England.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
Evidence from follow-up studies concerned with the mortality of epilepsy suggests the suicide rate is increased. The risk of suicide seems to be higher from temporal lobe epilepsy, for epilepsy with a greater degree of handicap and in the early years of the condition.