PMID: 11902314Mar 21, 2002Paper

Psychiatric disorders before and after surgery for epilepsy

Epilepsia
Y Inoue, T Mihara

Abstract

To examine the frequency of psychiatric disorders before and after surgery for epilepsy and the postoperative changes. We examined the psychiatric status of 226 patients aged 18 years or older and with IQ >50 who underwent focal resection surgery after age 15 years at our center and were followed up for >2 years after surgery. Seventy-eight (34.5%) patients had psychiatric disorders before and/or after surgery, comprising 36 patients with psychosis, 15 with affective disorders, and 27 with neurotic/behavioral disorders. All but four of these patients had temporal lobe epilepsy. Of the 61 patients who had psychiatric disorders before surgery, 22 patients were free of psychiatric symptoms after surgery (eight with psychosis, 13 with neurotic/behavior disorders, one with affective disorders), and 39 patients continued having psychiatric symptoms after surgery (22 with psychosis, 12 with neurotic/behavior disorders, five with affective disorders). Nine patients had a transient affective disorder that appeared 1-2 months after surgery and disappeared within 1-2 months. In eight patients, chronic psychiatric symptoms manifested after surgery (psychosis in six cases, neurotic/behavior disorders in two), one of whom exhibited postictal...Continue Reading

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