Psychiatric Comorbidity in Patients Evaluated for Chronic Epilepsy: A Differential Role of the Right Hemisphere?

Abstract

Right-sided or bilateral foci seem to represent a risk factor for psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy, although we did not find any particular association between a psychiatric syndrome and focus localization. Recognition and treatment of psychiatric comorbidity is of major importance since its presence may interfere with patient's decision making for epilepsy surgery treatment.