Psychiatric Evaluation Prior to Epilepsy Surgery
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Psychiatric Evaluation Prior to Epilepsy Surgery

Arch Epilepsy 2012;18(1):30-32 DOI: 10.5505/epilepsi.2012.78941
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Abstract

Epilepsy patients who are resistant to medical treatment carry the increased risk of psychiatric comorbidity. There is a bidirectional relationship between epilepsy surgery and psychiatric status. Surgery affects the prognosis of presurgical psychiatric symptoms and psychiatric status affects the postoperative prognosis of epileptic convulsions. Therefore a psychiatrist with experience on patients with epilepsy should be a part of every epilepsy surgery team, to evaluate patients carefully prior to surgery and to follow them accordingly after the operation.

Keywords: Epilepsy surgery, psychiatric evaluation, temporal lobe epilepsy