INTRODUCTION & AIM OF THE WORK :
Depression and anxiety are common psychiatric comorbidities of epilepsy. This work aimed to assess the relationship between psychological disorders (depression and anxiety) and epilepsy and to explore the different factors involved in such relationship.
 
SUBJECTS AND METHODS:
We studied 100 patients with epilepsy in the neuropsychiatry department in Qena South Valley University Hospital for comorbid depression and anxiety. Hamilton questionnaire for depression and anxiety (HAMD and HAMA), EEG and  brain Imaging were carried out..
 
RESULTS:
Demographic data of the studied population show that the mean ± SD of age is 25.08±13.81, male (64%), age of onset of epilepsy (19.18± 12.597), duration  of  treatment (4.82± 4.546). HAMD score (9.31±5.74), HAMA score (13.80±7.16). Depression was diagnosed in 48% and anxiety in 36% of patients. Among epileptic patients with depression or anxiety, no significant relation was detected regarding age, sex, educational level, age of onset nor duration of illness Depression was more in those with postictal drowsiness and GTC type of seizures.