Epilepsy and intellectual disability

Bowley, C. and Kerr, Michael Patrick 2000. Epilepsy and intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 44 (5) , pp. 529-543. 10.1046/j.1365-2788.2000.00270.x

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Abstract

A Medline and Psychline literature review of epilepsy in people with intellectual disability was performed. The review has highlighted the importance of the impact of epilepsy on the lives of individuals and their families, affecting physical morbidity, leading to an increased mortality and increasing the care-giving burden. Interventions with a strong evidence base are mainly pharmacological with an increasing body of work on the novel antiepileptic drugs. Surprisingly little research exists into the quality of service provision for this population. The authors suggest three areas for future work: (1) an increasing application of research methodologies such as direct observation and qualitative studies into this field; (2) an exploration of the broad impact of treatment and (3) the possibility that epilepsy is a barrier to care provision.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing
ISSN:	0964-2633
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2017 08:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81036

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