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Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2012 Sep 29;380(9848):10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61455-X. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61455-X

TABLE 4.

Bidirectional Psychiatric Disorder-Epilepsy Relationships

Authors
Fosgren (1990)118 Depression a risk factor for epilepsy.
Hesdorffer et al. (2000)119 Depression a risk factor for epilepsy.
Hesdorffer et al. (2004)120 ADHD a risk factor for epilepsy in children.
Qin et al. (2005)121 Association between epilepsy and schizophrenia.
Hesdorffer et al. (2006)122 Depression and suicide attempt are risk factors for epilepsy.
McAfee et al. (2007)123 Psychiatric disorders are risk factors for epilepsy in pediatrics.
Chang et al. (2011)124 Bidirectional relationship between epilepsy and schizophrenia.
Adachi et al. (2011)125 Bidirectional relationship between epilepsy and psychosis.
Jennum et al. (2011)126 Higher health contacts, medical health care costs, lower work and antedate epilepsy onset.
Wotton & Goldacre (2012)127 Bidirectional relationship between epilepsy and schizophrenia.
Adelow et al. (2012)128 Bidirectional relationship of psychiatric hospitalization and epilepsy.
Hesdorffer et al. (In press)129 Bidirectional relationship of psychosis, suicidality and epilepsy.