Do neurologists need psychiatric training?
7th May 2014
By Hugo Wilcken
Untreated depression in people with epilepsy is a huge problem and neurologists should “take ownership” of the issue, says a leading US epilepsy expert.

Writing in Epilepsy and Behaviour, Dr Andres Kanner of Rush Medical Center in Chicago said the prevalence of depression in epilepsy ranged between 30% and 35% but the vast majority were not diagnosed.
And yet epilepsy