Suicide outcomes after resective epilepsy surgery

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 462-464

  Hamid, Hamada ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^b   Vickrey, Barbara G ^c   Berg, Anne T ^d   Bazil, Carl W ^e   Langfitt, John T ^f   Walczak, Thaddeus S ^g   Sperling, Michael R ^h   Shinnar, Shlomo ⁱ   Spencer, Susan S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Columbia University Medical School ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^g Minnesota Comprehensive Epilepsy Program   (United States)

^h THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Epilepsy; Mortality; Neurosurgery; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERENCE VALUES; SUICIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952736474     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.12.031     Document Type: Article

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