Felt Stigma and Its Underlying Contributors in Epilepsy Patients

Lingyan Mao, Keying Wang, Qianqian Zhang, Jing Wang, Yanan Zhao, Weifeng Peng, Jing Ding

Frontiers in Public Health · 2022 · 38 citations · 57 references

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Abstract

Felt stigma in epilepsy patients was found to be correlated with neuroticism, depression, and deficient social function of QOL, which might be predisposed by the impairment of the left cingulum. Our results provide preliminary evidence for the underlying neural circuits in stigmatization.

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