Psychiatria pre prax 6/2009
Sexual dysfunctions in patients with epilepsy
Epilepsy as a chronic brain dysfunction is often accompanied by psychiatric comorbidities that can worsen quality of life even more than epileptic seizures themselves. Frequent sexual dysfunction and its correlation with depression and anxiety rate is also referred in epileptic patients. Psychiatric disorders as well as sexual dysfunction are often underdiagnosed and undertreated.
Keywords: epilepsy, psychiatric comorbidities, sexual dysfunction
