Adults who have long-standing epilepsy often have many social difficulties to contend with regardless of whether their childhood seizures have remitted or not, according to a 30-year longitudinal study.
The outcomes of adults who had three different types of childhood epilepsies were “amazingly similar,” with high rates of social and romantic isolation, low educational achievement, and psychiatric diagnoses, Dr. Carol Camfield said at the 30th International Epilepsy Congress.
