Citation

Barraclough BM. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1987; 76(4): 339-345.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton Medical School, England.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3321920

Abstract

Evidence from follow-up studies concerned with the mortality of epilepsy suggests the suicide rate is increased. The risk of suicide seems to be higher from temporal lobe epilepsy, for epilepsy with a greater degree of handicap and in the early years of the condition.

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