Anxiety Disorder Due to Epilepsy: A Case Report

Ozyurt G., ÖZTURA İ., Alkins T., Ozerdem A.

TURK PSIKIYATRI DERGISI, cilt.26, sa.1, ss.71-75, 2015 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 26 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Dergi Adı: TURK PSIKIYATRI DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.71-75
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Epilepsy, anxiety disorder, anticonvulsants, FEAR
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Epileptic patients present with psychiatric disorders more frequently than the general population and patients with other chronic medical conditions. Psychiatric disorders can co-occur with epilepsy and can be caused by epilepsy. Personality changes, as well as psychosis, and mood or anxiety disorders can occur in association with epilepsy. Anxiety disorders due to epilepsy can manifest as generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. The risk of an anxiety disorder is higher in patients with focal epilepsy, especially those with temporal lobe epilepsy, but an anxiety disorder can also occur in patients with frontal lobe epilepsy or generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy. Herein we present a 41-year-old female patient with comorbid anxiety disorder and epilepsy that improved following initiation of antiepileptic medication.