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Antidepressant and double antidepressant treatment for the affective disorder of epilepsy.
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Abstract
About half of all patients with chronic epilepsy experience an intermittent and polysymptomatic affective disorder; fewer than 10% suffer from interictal psychotic episodes. The affective disorder responds well to treatment with tricyclic antidepressant medication. The interictal psychosis tends to develop among those with severe affective disorder, responds poorly to antipsychotic medication, and has been more difficult to treat.