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Use of a Wireless Video-EEG System to Monitor Epileptiform Discharges Following Lateral Fluid-Percussion Induced Traumatic Brain Injury
Published on: June 21, 2019
[Developmental effects of juvenile epilepsy : fate of young adults]
Elise Trierweiler1, Alexandre Berney1
1Service de psychiatrie de liaison, Département de psychiatrie, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, 1011 Lausanne.
Abstract:
As part of our liaison psychiatry consultation, we regularly see young adults with juvenile epilepsy who are referred because of psychiatric symptoms that complicate the management of their epilepsy : worsening seizures, poor medication compliance, irregular follow-up. Juvenile epilepsy is associated with serious consequences that have a significant impact on the identity construction of these young patients, their degree of autonomy, and their level of socioprofessional integration.
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