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REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PSIQUIATRIA
Volume 34, Issue -, Pages S233-S259Publisher
ASSOC BRASILEIRA PSIQUIATRIA
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbp.2012.08.003
Keywords
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; Major Depression; Interictal Dysphoria; Psychiatric Comorbidities; Neuropathology; Synaptic Plasticity; Animal Models
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- FAPESP
- FAPESP-CInAPCe
- PROEX-CAPES
- CNPq
- FAEPA
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Objective: There is accumulating evidence that the limbic system is pathologically involved in cases of psychiatric comorbidities in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients. Our objective was to develop a conceptual framework describing how neuropathological, neurochemical and electrophysiological aspects might contribute to the development of psychiatric symptoms in TLE and the putative neurobiological mechanisms that cause mood disorders in this patient subgroup. Methods: In this review, clinical, experimental and neuropathological findings, as well as neurochemical features of the limbic system were examined together to enhance our understanding of the association between TLE and psychiatric comorbidities. Finally, the value of animal models in epilepsy and mood disorders was discussed. Conclusions: TLE and psychiatric symptoms coexist more frequently than chance would predict. Alterations and neurotransmission disturbance among critical anatomical networks, and impaired or aberrant plastic changes might predispose patients with TLE to mood disorders. Clinical and experimental studies of the effects of seizures on behavior and electrophysiological patterns may offer a model of how limbic seizures increase the vulnerability of TLE patients to precipitants of psychiatric symptoms.
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