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Suicidality in Epilepsy and Possible Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs
- Source :
- Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 10:327-332
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010.
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Abstract
- Suicide is an important cause of premature death, and people with epilepsy are thought to be at increased risk for suicide. Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) continue to be the mainstay of epilepsy treatment, but the benefits of seizure control must be balanced with their psychotropic potential. In recent years, suicidality has been recognized as a complication of several groups of drugs and, most recently, AEDs were implicated in an alert by the US Food and Drug Administration. The risk of suicidal ideation and behavior as side effects of AED treatment is low, and in people with epilepsy, such a risk must be balanced against the risk of not treating the seizures.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Neurology
Poison control
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Epilepsy
Risk Factors
Injury prevention
medicine
Humans
Psychiatry
Suicidal ideation
United States Food and Drug Administration
business.industry
Mental Disorders
General Neuroscience
Human factors and ergonomics
medicine.disease
United States
Affect
Suicide
Anticonvulsants
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15346293 and 15284042
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....78bea01f296024c11d4bf07759c2583d