Description: While both depression and anxiety are common mood disorders in the general population, there is a growing body of evidence that the prevalence rate of these disorders is also substantial in people with epilepsy. Based on this premise Joyce Cramer, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University and colleagues recently conducted a study examining symptoms of anxiety and depression as well as health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among epilepsy patients whose seizures were not fully controlled. Their findings were published in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior (Cramer JA, Brandenburg N, Xu X. Differentiating anxiety and depression symptoms in patients with partial epilepsy.