title: [Clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of dysphoric states and psychoses associated with epilepsy].
abstract: Although dysphoric states and psychoses represent clinically relevant psychiatric complications in patients with epilepsy, their symptomatologies are complex and therefore frequently underrecognized and undertreated in daily psychiatric routine. Detecting dysphoric states and psychoses secondary to the psychotropic effects of various antiepileptic drugs is often challenging, even for the most experienced psychiatrists. This article gives an overview of epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and therapy of interictal, peri-ictal, and alternative dysphoric states and psychoses in patients with epilepsy. Further, potential drug interactions between antiepileptic and psychiatric medications are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie der Medizinischen Universität Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 31, 8036 Graz. Hans-Bernd.Rothenhaeusler@klinikum-graz.at
authors.forename: H-B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Rothenhäusler
mesh_terms: D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D000927:Anticonvulsants; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs