title: The suicide rate of epilepsy.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton Medical School, England.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Barraclough
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000401:mortality*; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000401:mortality; D005060:Europe; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States