Helping Epilepsy Patients With Anxiety & Depression - Heidi Munger Clary, Wake Forest Baptist Health, NC, USA
Podcast:
Anxiety and depression. Each of these mental illnesses are incredibly common as part of epilepsy. In anticipation of World Mental Health Day (10th October), we talk about anxiety and depression as part of epilepsy - with adult epileptologist Heidi Mungar Clary from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in North Carolina, US. Heidi tells us about her cool research into the topics (presented at the ILAE EEC conference in Geneva) and how we can improve the lives of people affected by epilepsy, depression, and anxiety.
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Meet Heidi
Heidi's career foci choice of adults, epilepsy, anxiety, & depression
Being a neurophysiologist
Variation of patients
Research discoveries re the anxiety & depression part of epilepsy
Implementing the Integrative Care model
Benefits of Integrative Care
When a person's mental health takes priority over seizure control
Thank you & tips for both clinicians & patients
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Heidi, MD, MPH is an adult neurologist at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, NC, specialising in epilepsy, the depression, anxiety, and suicidality often accompanying epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, refractory epilepsy, and epilepsy with pregnancy.
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