title: Driving and Epilepsy: a Review of Important Issues.
abstract: Driving restrictions in people with epilepsy (PWE) is a highly contentious topic. The fundamental difficulty lies in achieving a balance between safety and practicality. The aim of this review is to provide an overview, history, and rationale behind current laws regarding driving restriction in PWE. We also discuss recent findings that may be helpful to practitioners during individual discussions with PWE including seizure recurrence risk after first seizure, recurrent seizure, and anticonvulsant with drawl and driving restrictions in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES).
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, 600 N. Wolfe Street Meyer 2-147, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. Jkang50@jhmi.edu.
authors.forename: Joon Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University, 901 Walnut Street, 4th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mintzer
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001334:Automobile Driving; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012306:Risk; D012640:Seizures / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D000927:Anticonvulsants
keywords: Anticonvulsants; Driving; Epilepsy; Motor vehicle accident; Pseudoseizures; Seizures