TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Neuropsychiatric and neuropsychological features in epilepsy
JO  - Revista Neurologica Argentina
A1  - Ure, J.A.
A1  - Shliapochnik, J.
A1  - Folcini, R.
SP  - 261
EP  - 266
VL  - 27
IS  - 4
N2  - We often can find Depression in epileptic patients. In fact Atypical Depression, neither major nor minor in DSM-IV terms, milder and more chronic than in Bipolar Disorders, dysthimic in nature in the Epilepsy patients. We need lesser amount of Antidepressive Drugs in order to improve the Depression, although epileptic patients did suicide four times more frequently than non-epileptic matched with them in terms of years suffering chronic invalidating disturbances. Depression used to happens interictally, but Gloor (1981, 1982) have studied ictally sad feelings through intracranial electrical stimulation recordings (ICES) with chronically implanted electrodes. Such feelings can appear also pre or post-ictally. Adverse reactions provoked by antiepileptic drugs and intrapersonal and interpersonal stigma can contribute to develop depressive reactions. Frequently but not always, is possible to localize spikes in TLE (temporal lobe epilepsy) patients with left-sided focus. In this article we discuss: 1) pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments, 2) frontal lobe dysfunction in TLE patients with Depression and 3) post-surgical symptoms.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 0325-0938
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -