Epilepsy Research
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 58-65 , January 2009

Factors associated with impaired quality of life in younger and older adults with epilepsy

  • Leonides Canuet

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • Department of Neurology, Saturnino Lora Provincial Hospital, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
    • ,
  • Ryouhei Ishii

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamadaoka 2-2, D-3, Suita City 565-0871, Japan. Tel.: +81 6 6879 3051; fax: +81 6 6879 3059.
    • ,
  • Masao Iwase

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • ,
  • Koji Ikezawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Koseinenkin Hospital, Japan
    • ,
  • Ryu Kurimoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • ,
  • Michiyo Azechi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • ,
  • Hidetoshi Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • ,
  • Takayuki Nakahachi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    • ,
  • Yoshio Teshima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Koseinenkin Hospital, Japan
    • ,
  • Masatoshi Takeda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Received 29 July 2008 ,Revised 9 September 2008 ,Accepted 14 September 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2008.09.001

Epilepsy Research
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 58-65 , January 2009

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