Psychiatric aspects of intractable epilepsy.
Dr. Blumer argues that intractable temporal lobe epilepsy is often accompanied by a psychiatric syndrome, which he calls "interictal dysphoric disorder". Interictal dysphoric disorder is surprisingly responsive to antidepressant medications, although it is seldom diagnosed or treated.
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