title: Psychiatric comorbidity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the prevalence of psychiatric disturbances among patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME).
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-three patients with JME (22 female, 21 male, mean age 32.4+/-13, range 15-63) were assessed by means of the Structured Clinical Interviews for DSM-IV (SCID-I and SCID-II). Current and lifetime psychiatric diagnoses were assigned.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-five percent of the JME patients suffered from one or more psychiatric disorders (Axis I and Axis II). Personality disorders were present in 23% and Axis I disorders in 19%. Altogether, 47% had a psychiatric disorder at any time of their life.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychiatric diagnoses are slightly higher than in representative community samples. The substantially increased number of personality disorders in JME patients might be attributed to frontal lobe deficits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. eugen.trinka@uklibk.ac.at
authors.forename: Eugen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Trinka
authors.forename: Gudrun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kienpointner
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Unterberger
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Luef
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: Lisa Bartha
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Doering
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Doering
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001317:Austria / Q000453:epidemiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D017034:Epilepsy, Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D020190:Myoclonic Epilepsy, Juvenile / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data