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Could depression leads to epilepsy?

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Dr. Lynne Weixel answered

Specializes in Clinical Psychology

More replies welcome: I cannot see any way that depression - even major depression - can lead to epilepsy. I can see how epilepsy can lead to depression.

Answered 11/28/2017

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

I am not: aware of clinical depression being a cause for a seizure disorder.

Answered 10/17/2017

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Nonepileptc seizures: Depression will not lead to true epilepsy, which causes seizures due to abnormal electrical discharges in the brain. But there is a phenomenon of nonepileptic seizures that can sometimes look like seizures, but is not due to frank electrical discharges but rather a manifestation of psychiatric diseases (usually a stress response but sometimes due to depression).

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