The suicide rate of epilepsy
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 76 (4) , 339-345
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb05616.x
Abstract
Evidence from follow-up studies concerned with the mortality of epilepsy suggests the suicide rate is increased. The risk of suicide seems to be higher from temporal lobe epilepsy, for epilepsy with a greater degree of handicap and in the early years of the condition.Keywords
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