Neuropsychiatric morbidity in focal epilepsy
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Neuropsychiatric morbidity in focal epilepsy.
BACKGROUND Previous work has identified elevated prevalence rates for psychiatric disorders in individuals with medically refractory focal epilepsy, particularly temporal lobe epilepsy. Many studies were undertaken before the advent of video electroencephalogram monitoring (VEM) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). AIMS To investigate which characteristics of the focal epilepsy syndromes are...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.046664