Severity of depressive symptomatology and functional impairment in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy

Children with TLE had moderate to severe DS early in the course of their disease with a relevant impact on their global functional activities, especially considering adolescents. Epilepsy severity seems not to be correlated to the severity of DS, contradicting the idea of a cause-consequence relationship. More systematic research is needed to better understand the association of depressive disorders in children and adolescents with TLE.