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Serum Folate and Vitamin B12 in Epileptics with and without Mental Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. P. Snaith ,
S. Mehta  and
A. H. Raby
R. P. Snaith
Affiliation:
Stanley Royd Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield
S. Mehta
Affiliation:
Stanley Royd Hospital
A. H. Raby
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Pinderfields and Stanley Royd Hospitals, Wakefield
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Considerable interest is at present focused on the possibility of an association between mental illness in epileptics and metabolic abnormalities resulting from the anticonvulsant drugs they have been taking; in fact it has been suggested that these drug-induced abnormalities may be actually causative of the psychiatric disorders. For a good summary of this literature the interested reader is referred to Reynolds (1968).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 116 , Issue 531 , February 1970 , pp. 179 - 183
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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