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Kindling, Anxiety and Limbic Epilepsy: Human and Animal Perspectives

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Part of the book series: Advances in Behavioral Biology ((ABBI,volume 37))

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Recent clinical data in humans suggests that two types psychopathology associated with human epilepsy are anxiety and depression1,2. There is little agreement, however, regarding which type of epilepsy creates the greatest risk for interictal psychopathological complications2. Epileptics experience many life disturbances (such as illness, family and employment problems3, which are suspected precipitants of anxiety and depressive disorders4,5. Since there is no clear association between type of seizure disorder and risk for anxiety and depression, it is possible that the interictal psychopathology is a response to the stresses of being an epileptic.

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Adamec, R. (1990). Kindling, Anxiety and Limbic Epilepsy: Human and Animal Perspectives. In: Wada, J.A. (eds) Kindling 4. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 37. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5796-4_24

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