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The connections between psychiatry and neurology are nowhere more evident than in the remarkable comorbidity of psychiatric illnesses — especially depression — and epilepsy, reaching 40% or even higher in some reports. A history of depression is a risk factor both for epilepsy overall and for medically refractory epilepsy.
In this study, researchers retrospectively examined predictors of seizure control after anterior medial temporal lobectomy for pharmacoresistant medial temporal lobe epilepsy in 100 patients. At 2 years after surgery, seizure freedom or near-freedom was significantly less likely in patients with histories of psychiatric comorbidities, both overall and mood disorders specifically. The association held after adjustments for …