Assessment and Management of Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Epilepsy

Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with epilepsy are common comorbidities which place a significant burden on patients and families and complicate the clinical management of epilepsy. This paper presents a narrative review on the aetiology, phenomenology, assessment, and management o...

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Autores principales: Plevin, David, Smith, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6525933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31191736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2571368
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description Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with epilepsy are common comorbidities which place a significant burden on patients and families and complicate the clinical management of epilepsy. This paper presents a narrative review on the aetiology, phenomenology, assessment, and management of depression and anxiety among paediatric patients with epilepsy. The recognition of affective comorbidity in paediatric epilepsy is limited at present, and the contributory role of antiepileptic medication towards such comorbidity must be considered by clinicians.
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spelling pubmed-65259332019-06-12 Assessment and Management of Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Epilepsy Plevin, David Smith, Nicholas Behav Neurol Review Article Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with epilepsy are common comorbidities which place a significant burden on patients and families and complicate the clinical management of epilepsy. This paper presents a narrative review on the aetiology, phenomenology, assessment, and management of depression and anxiety among paediatric patients with epilepsy. The recognition of affective comorbidity in paediatric epilepsy is limited at present, and the contributory role of antiepileptic medication towards such comorbidity must be considered by clinicians. Hindawi 2019-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6525933/ /pubmed/31191736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2571368 Text en Copyright © 2019 David Plevin and Nicholas Smith. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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