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Postictal Depression following Subtle Seizures
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Postictal Depression following Subtle Seizures

Richard Fincham and Steven Anderson
Epilepsy & behavior, Vol.1(4), pp.278-280
08/2000
DOI: 10.1006/ebeh.2000.0095
PMID: 12609444

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Abstract

We describe a woman with stereotypic recurrent episodes of severe depression with suicidal ideation that follow series of simple partial seizures. Her seizures were not clinically recognized for many years. When her seizures are effectively treated with antiepileptic drug therapy, her depressive episodes remit.
epilepsy temporal lobe seizure neuroendocrine mood brain behavior postictal mental state

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