Depression

Abstract

Depressive disorders are the most frequent psychiatric comorbidity in people with epilepsy, with lifetime prevalence rates of 30-35 %. Their prevalence is also higher than in the general population, and in particular, in people with poorly controlled seizures. In addition, there is a complex relation between epilepsy and depressive disorders, whereby not only are patients with epilepsy at greater risk of developing depressive disorders, but patients with primary depressive disorders are at greater risk of developing epilepsy. In this chapter, we review the salient aspects of depressive disorders in epilepsy that any clinician treating people with epilepsy must know. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)