Mood disorder may represent the most common, and likely the most worrisome, psychiatric manifestation associated with epilepsy. Mood disorders in people with epilepsy can greatly impact a person's daily activities and quality of life. These feelings may be present most of the time, or appear just before, during, or after a seizure. Depression is frequently associated, although anxiety and bipolar disorder may also co-occur with epilepsy. Listen to the expert in this episode on Epilepsy and Mood Disorders

Epilepsy is a disorder that involves a constellation of symptoms that vary in frequency and intensity from child to child. Of those children with epilepsy, approximately 25% continue to experience poor seizure control even with anti-epileptic drug therapy. In addition, it is well documented that epilepsy in children is associated with problems in multiple areas, including academic achievement, behavioral and emotional adjustment, and social competence. To know more tune into this episode on Epilepsy and learning issues.

There are many different kinds of seizures. The doctor must know which kind you had before the right medication can be prescribed. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell certain kinds of seizures from others. The doctor may not see the seizure, so he or she must rely on your description, or the information that you got from others, about your seizures and the form they take along with what medical tests reveal to help the physician to decide which medication to use. What are the right ways of Describing and Recording Seizures, To know more tune into this episode.