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Psychiatric Symptoms in Refractory Epilepsy During the First Year After Surgery.


ABSTRACT: Psychiatric morbidity in drug-resistant epilepsy is frequent. Surgery is the best therapeutic alternative for treating seizures, but the current evidence concerning the effects of surgery on psychiatric disorders (PDs) is inconclusive. We aim to clarify surgery's role in long-term PDs. Using a prospective controlled study, we analyzed the psychopathologic outcomes of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, comparing those who underwent surgery to those who did not due to not being suitable. Surgical candidates were paired (n?=?84) with the immediately following nonsurgical candidates (n?=?68). Both groups continued their usual medical treatment. We studied psychiatric changes for each group and analyzed de novo and remission cases. The assessments were made during the presurgical evaluation, and at 6 months (6-M) and 12 months (12-M) after surgery. Finally, we determined associated factors for postsurgical PDs. At 12 months, using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), anxiety improved in both groups (p?=?0.000), while depression improved only in the surgical group (p?=?0.016). Moreover, all symptom dimensions on the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90), as well as severity, distress, and total symptoms, decreased only in the surgical group. These ameliorations reached not only statistical significance but also clinical significance for depression (HADS) (p?=?0.014) and the interictal dysphoric disorder (p?=?0.013). The main predictors for PDs after surgery were as follows: the presurgical and 6-month psychiatric symptoms, the absence of surgery, seizure outcomes, and some antiepileptic and psychiatric drugs. This study provides evidence that surgery for epilepsy could have a role in improving some symptoms of psychiatric disorders 12-M after the surgery.

SUBMITTER: Ramos-Perdigues S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6277301 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Psychiatric Symptoms in Refractory Epilepsy During the First Year After Surgery.

Ramos-Perdigués Sònia S   Baillés Eva E   Mané Anna A   Carreño Mar M   Donaire Antonio A   Rumià Jordi J   Bargalló Nuria N   Boget Teresa T   Setoain Xavier X   Valdés Manuel M   Pintor Luís L  

Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20181001 4


Psychiatric morbidity in drug-resistant epilepsy is frequent. Surgery is the best therapeutic alternative for treating seizures, but the current evidence concerning the effects of surgery on psychiatric disorders (PDs) is inconclusive. We aim to clarify surgery's role in long-term PDs. Using a prospective controlled study, we analyzed the psychopathologic outcomes of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, comparing those who underwent surgery to those who did not due to not being suitable. Surgi  ...[more]

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