Comments on Jones JE et al. Rates and risk factors for suicide, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts in chronic epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior 2003;4(Suppl. 3):S31-38

Depression in epilepsy

“…As already mentioned, suicide in epilepsy has long represented, and probably still represents, a taboo. In fact, if we analyse the whole literature on suicide in epilepsy, 50% of currently available indexed papers have been published in the ten years, while the remaining 50% in the preceding 30-40 years [59]. The interest on suicide in epilepsy rapidly escalated during last few years and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alert on the increased risk of suicidal ideation and behaviour in people taking antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) has probably contributed to that [60].…”