Psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy: A narrative review.

ABSTRACT: People with epilepsy (PWE) are at higher risk of psychiatric disorders (PD), disability, and reduced quality of life than the general population, especially in childhood and adolescence and when seizures originate from the temporal lobe. Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) is the most common type of focal epilepsy and can be due to structural abnormalities, or non-lesional causes, such as genetic variants. The prevalence of PD is approximately 20%-30% in people with epilepsy in general, and from 40% up to 80% in people with TLE. A higher rate of anxiety and depression disorders has been observed in association with TLE than with extra-temporal epilepsy, or idiopathic generalized epilepsy, or other chronic diseases such as diabetes. However, while the association between psychopathology and TLE ha

SUBMITTER: Cappelletto P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11803279 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature