Psychiatric outcome of temporal lobectomy for epilepsy: Incidence and treatment of psychiatric complications

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 478-486

  Blumer, Dietrich ^a,b   Wakhlu, Sidarth ^a,b   Davies, Keith ^a,b   Hermann, Bruce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Epi Care Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressant treatment in epilepsy; Interictal dysphoric disorder; Postoperative psychiatric complications; Psychoses in epilepsy; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPHORIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031920932     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01409.x     Document Type: Article

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