High prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities in children and adolescents at a tertiary epilepsy center

ABSTRACT Background: Epilepsy is highly comorbid with psychiatric disorders and a significant amount of the morbidity related to epilepsy is in fact a result of psychiatric comorbidities. Objective: To investigate the frequency of different psychiatric comorbidities in children with refractory epi...

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Main Authors: Maria Antonia Serra-Pinheiro, Isabella D'andrea-Meira, Abraão Iuri Medeiros Angelim, Fernanda Alves Fonseca, Nicolle Zimmermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2021-07-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2021000600521&tlng=en