Psychopathological and peripheral levels of neurobiological correlates of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with epilepsy: A hospital-based study

► Obsessive-compulsive symptoms are common in patients with idiopathic epilepsy. ► Male sex, age, and seizure type and side are also risks for OCSs and epilepsy. ► Intractability to antiepileptic medications is a main risk for OCSs and epilepsy. ► Depression and anxiety are common comorbidities of OCSs and epilepsy.