Overview
Depressive disorders are a common psychiatric comorbidity in individuals with epilepsy, affecting approximately one-third of this population and significantly impacting quality of life 2. There is uncertainty regarding optimal antidepressant selection and the potential risk of seizure exacerbation 2.Diagnosis
Management
Special Populations
Key Recommendations
References
1 Lin H, Lin WH, Lin F, Liu CY, Che CH, Huang HP. Potential Pleiotropic Genes and Shared Biological Pathways in Epilepsy and Depression Based on GWAS Summary Statistics. Computational intelligence and neuroscience 2022. link 2 Maguire MJ, Marson AG, Nevitt SJ. Antidepressants for people with epilepsy and depression. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2021. link