Mood Disorder Symptoms Prevalent in Epilepsy

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PHILADELPHIA -- Symptoms of bipolar disorder are prevalent among patients with epilepsy, and are highly associated with depressive symptoms in these patients, an analysis of 54 epilepsy patients at a tertiary care center shows.

Patients with epilepsy and both bipolar and depressive symptoms may have the mood instability of interictal dysphoric disorder, Dr. Alan B. Ettinger and his associates reported in a poster at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society.

They evaluated adult patients who were managed at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center of Long Island Jewish Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y. Using the Mood Disorders Questionnaire (MDQ), they identified …