Mental and Emotional Changes in Epileptic Patients on Continuous Anticonvulsant Medication

CLISICIASS who deal with epileptic patients are continually faced with the question of possible mental and emotional side effects of new anticonvulsive drugs, and even for the older anticonvulsant drugs there is no adequate survey of changes in the patient’s adjustment to his environment on continuous medication. The present research was designed to throw light on this p b l e m , namely, “do anticonvulsive drugs a ect the person’s abili with his environment quite aside rom their efficacy in controlling seizures, and if so, what is the nature of the changes?” t y to cope