psychiatric conditions associated with seizure d/o?

[animas]

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Can someone help me with the answer to this or suggest where I can look this up?

 

[Doc Samson]

Can someone help me with the answer to this or suggest where I can look this up?

The short answer is that any psychiatric condition can be associated with epilepsy. Could you refine the question a little? Psychiatric symptoms associated wtih seizures? Psychiatric disorders that are frequently comorbid with epilepsy?

 

[Manicsleep]

A couple off the top of my head...

Eating disorders, TBI related anything, substance abuse, delirium

 

[animas]

The short answer is that any psychiatric condition can be associated with epilepsy. Could you refine the question a little? Psychiatric symptoms associated wtih seizures? Psychiatric disorders that are frequently comorbid with epilepsy?

The question in bold.

 

[kugel]

- Alcohol abuse
- pseudoseizures or "psychogenic non-epileptic seizures" (PNES) (high % have actual seizure disorder in addition to PNES)
- mental ******ation
- ADHD
- "Individuals who reported ever having had epilepsy or a seizure disorder were more likely than those without a self-reported epilepsy diagnosis to have ever had depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, sleep disorder, or migraine a finding that could be an important consideration in the clinical management of epilepsy, Ruth Ottman, Ph.D., reported at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society."
--http://www.medconnect.com.au/tabid/84/ct1/c335030/Psychiatric-Other-CNS-Comorbidities-More-Common-in-Epilepsy-Patients/Default.aspx


Psychiatric Comorbidity in Children with New Onset Epilepsy
Jones JE, Watson R, Sheth R, Caplan R, Koehn M, Seidenberg M, Hermann B.
Dev Med Child Neurol 2007. 49(7):493–497. [PubMed]
The aim of this study was to characterize the distribution, timing, and risk factors for psychiatric comorbidity in children with recent onset epilepsy. Children aged 8 to 18 years with recent onset epilepsy (<1 year in duration) of idiopathic etiology (n = 53) and a healthy comparison group (n = 50) underwent a structured psychiatric diagnostic interview to characterize the spectrum of lifetime-to-date history of comorbid psychiatric disorder. There was no significant difference between the children with recent onset epilepsy and healthy comparison children in sex (31 males, 22 females vs 23 males, 27 females) or mean age 12.7y [SD 3.3] vs 12.7y [SD 3.2]). Children with recent onset epilepsy exhibited an elevated rate of lifetime-to-date Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV) Axis I disorders compared with the comparison group. They showed significantly higher rates of depressive disorders (22.6 vs. 4%, p = 0.01), anxiety disorders (35.8 vs 22%, p<0.05), and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (26.4 vs 10%, p = 0.01) with elevated but less prevalent rates of oppositional defiant and tic disorders. A subset of children with epilepsy (45%) exhibited DSM-IV Axis I disorders before the first recognized seizure, suggesting the potential influence of antecedent neurobiological factors that remain to be identified. The increased prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity antedating epilepsy onset may be consistent with the presence of underlying neurobiological influences independent of seizures, epilepsy syndrome, and medication treatment.

 

[masterofmonkeys]

The question in bold.

The most common BY FAR would be conversion DO (non-epileptic seizures...a term which makes me spit).

ADHD, anxiety disorders, and depression are all common as well.

One could certainly make the very strong argument that the former three are most likely to be complications of, rather than comorbid with epilepsy.

There's a good reason to argue for a straight-up biological link between depression and epilepsy though, through their relation to migraines.

Depression and migraine is a very common comorbidity, and migraines are strongly genetically influenced. Migraine and epilepsy is also a very common comorbidity, and both diseases are strongly genetically influenced. The 'triad' appears more often than could be explained by chance alone.

 

[animas]

very helpful. thank you. 😀

 

[whopper]

Some believe there is an "epileptic personality"

I haven't read this article, but I only post it to show this phenomenon has hit the medical literature.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/t2j361m7347375j1/

 

[dlm13cwru]

I would recommend checking out this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Psychiatric-C...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279676324&sr=8-2