Editorial: Antiepileptic drugs and suicidality: Much ado about very little?

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 300-301

  Mula, Marco ^a   Sander, Josemir W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR;

ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 77955170188     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181ea1638     Document Type: Editorial

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