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12/09/07
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New Findings Reveal Suicidal Behavior in Children with Epilepsy
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Reports indicating a high rate of suicidal behavior in adults and adolescents with epilepsy and studies with evidence of high rates of depression in children with epilepsy prompted this study," said Rochelle Caplan,M.D., Professor and Director of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA, today at the 58th annual American Epilepsy Society Conference (AES) in New Orleans. In the study Caplan et al. examined suicidal behavior in a large sample of children with epilepsy and the association with psychopathology, cognition, language and seizure variables. 167 children with epilepsy and 92 healthy children (aged 5-16) participated in the study.
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