Psychiatric adverse events in patients with epilepsy and learning disabilities taking levetiracetam

Seizure

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-57

  Mula, Marco ^a,b   Trimble, Michael R ^a   Sander, Josemir W A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Depression; Epilepsy; Learning disability; Levetiracetam; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; AGITATION; ANGER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 0942287940     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(03)00111-0     Document Type: Article

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