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Review
. 1987 Oct;76(4):339-45.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb05616.x.

The suicide rate of epilepsy

B M Barraclough  1
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Review

The suicide rate of epilepsy

B M Barraclough. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1987 Oct.

Abstract

Evidence from follow-up studies concerned with the mortality of epilepsy suggests the suicide rate is increased. The risk of suicide seems to be higher from temporal lobe epilepsy, for epilepsy with a greater degree of handicap and in the early years of the condition.

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