Stress and epilepsy: fact or fiction, and what can we do about it?
| Autor: | Marco Mula, Clare M. Galtrey, Hannah R. Cock |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Epilepsy Health professionals business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Clinical Practice 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Seizures Stress (linguistics) Epidemiology Humans Medicine Psychological stress Chronic stress 030212 general & internal medicine Neurology (clinical) business Psychiatry Stress Psychological 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| ISSN: | 1474-7766 |
| Popis: | People with epilepsy report that stress is their most common trigger for seizures and some believe it caused their epilepsy in the first place. The extensive preclinical, epidemiological and clinical studies examining the link between stress and epilepsy have given confusing results; the clinical studies in particular are fraught with confounders. However stress is clearly bad for health, and we now have substantial preclinical evidence suggesting that chronic stress worsens epilepsy; in selected cases it may even be a causal factor for epilepsy. Healthcare professionals working with people with epilepsy should pay more attention to stress in clinical practice. This review includes some practical advice and guidance for stress screening and management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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