Neurobiology of Depression as a Comorbidity of Epilepsy.

The study of depression as a comorbidity of epilepsy in humans is limited by the attendant iatrogenic and psychosocial variables. In order to study the neurobiology of this clinically important phenomenon without the above-mentioned confounding factors, we have studied the behavioral and biochemical correlates of epilepsy-associated depression in two rodent models of limbic epileptogenesis. For an expanded treatment of this topic see Jasper's Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies, Fourth Edition (Noebels JL, Avoli M, Rogawski MA, Olsen RW, Delgado-Escueta AV, eds) published by Oxford University Press. Available on NCBI Bookshelf.