Seizures associated with antidepressants: a review.

Abstract

Assessment of seizure risk in individuals involves consideration of predisposing factors, the antidepressant selected, and the bioavailability of the drug. Future studies of seizure risk would benefit from the use of specified criteria for determination of probable seizure events, a priori definition of predisposing exclusions, samples sufficiently large to provide adequate power, blood level monitoring, and inclusion of duration of drug treatment in the calculation of risk.