Topic: neuro-psychiatric co-morbidities

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases according to the World Health Organization (WHO) affecting around 70 million people worldwide [WHO]. Patients who suffer from epilepsy also suffer from a variety of neuro-psychiatric co-morbidities, which they can experience as crippling as the seizure condition itself. Adequate organization of cerebral white matter is utterly important for cognitive development. The failure of integration of neurologic function with cognition is reflected in neuro-psychiatric disease, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, in epilepsy we know

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases according to the World Health Organization (WHO) affecting around 70 million people worldwide [WHO]. Patients who suffer from epilepsy also suffer from a variety of neuro-psychiatric co-morbidities, which they can experience as crippling as the seizure condition itself. Adequate organization of cerebral white matter is utterly important for cognitive development. The failure of integration of neurologic function with cognition is reflected in neuro-psychiatric disease, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, in epilepsy we know