SEATTLE — Higher frequency of seizures and relatively poor quality of life are significant risk factors for depression in patients with epilepsy, according to a presentation at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.
“We wanted to study which factors were associated with incidence of depression in our patients with epilepsy,” Maryam Syed, MBBS, a postdoctoral research fellow in neurology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, said.
The population-based, cross-sectional study included 417 patients (68% Black, 57% women), aged 18 years and older, who were