Antiepileptic drugs and suicide risk: Could stopping medications pose a greater hazard?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1775-1776

  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

antiepileptic drugs; depression; epilepsy; suicide; US FDA

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; LITHIUM; PLACEBO;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG INDICATION; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 78649511226     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.10.165     Document Type: Editorial

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