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Incidence of SSRI treatment and psychiatric specialist care in new-onset adult epilepsy: are newer antiseizure medications associated with more treatment of anxiety/depression?

2026-02-27 neurology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundPersons with epilepsy are at increased risk of depression/anxiety. Older antiseizure medications (ASMs) had drug-drug interactions that complicated pharmacotherapy of depression/anxiety; newer ASMs lack this drawback but can have psychiatric side effects. Anxiety/depression are increasingly recognized and treated pharmacologically. We hypothesized that the likelihood of treatment with selective serotonin uptake inhibitors (SSRI) would have increased in adult-onset epilepsy when prescri...

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