Psychiatric issues in epilepsy
Subtitle: a practical guide to diagnosis and treatment
By: editors, Alan B. Ettinger, Andres M. Kanner.
Contributors: Ettinger, Alan B.; Kanner, Andres M.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Epilepsy -- complications; Epilepsy -- psychology; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis; Mental Disorders -- etiology; Mental Disorders -- therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Psychosis, depression, and epilepsy: epidemiologic considerations; title: 3. Psychiatric evaluation of the patient with epilepsy: a pratical approach; title: 4. Neuropsychological evaluation of the patient with seizures; title: 5. Affective disorders in epilepsy; title: 6. Psychosis of epilepsy: an integrated approach; title: 7. Anxiety disorders in epilepsy; title: 8. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder; title: 9. Psychiatric aspects of pediatric epilepsy; title: 10. Personality disorders in epilepsy; title: 11. Psychiatric phenomena as an expression of postictal and paraictal events; title: 12. Psychiatric issues in patients with epilepsy and mental retardation; title: 13. Aggressive behavior in epilepsy; title: 14. Psychiatric complications of epilepsy in the geriatric patient: diagnostic and treatment considerations; title: 15. Psychiatric issues in epilepsy surgery; title: 16. Anticonvulsants and psychiatric disorders; title: 17. Frontal lobe dysfunction in epilepsy; title: 18. Models of psychopathology in epilepsy: lessons learned from animal studies; title: 19. The social impact of epilepsy: keeping our patients "in the closet"; title: 20. Social services in epilepsy; title: 21. Quality of life in epilepsy; title: 22. Psychosocial aspects of pediatric epilepsy; title: 23. Psychiatric and psychological impact of sexual problems in epilepsy; title: 24. Psychogenic pseudoseizures: a general overview; title: 25. Psychopathology and outcome in pseudoseizures; title: 26. Treatment of psychogenic pseudoseizures: what to do after we have reached the diagnosis?