2023-04-17 19:12:31
Neurological and mental disorders are diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. This is a condition that affects mental health (with depression as the main disorder) and also impacts the thoughts, behaviors, relationships, and emotions of the people who suffer from it.
Sometimes it is difficult to know the exact nature of each disorder. This means that they do not constitute two separate categories from each other. So scientists have been doing research and have found different relationships between various disorders.
There is a bidirectional relationship between epilepsy and depression
For example, in Denmark a study was carried out that reflects a possible bidirectional relationship that exists between epilepsy and depression. Thus, it was determined that suffering from epilepsy increases the risk of depression and vice versa. In turn, having asthma increases the chances of both.
The study analyzed a population of more than 8.7 people and, among these, they identified 139,014 people with epilepsy, 219,990 with depression and 358,821 with asthma. Looking further, they found that there were more people with depression (almost twice as many) among those with epilepsy than among those without.
Asthma also has an impact on this mental disorder
The researchers also observed that, among these people, the rate of depression increased after the first months of epilepsy diagnosis and then tended to decrease, although it remained remarkably high during the more than 20 years that the study followed up. Thus, they examined the magnitude and long-term temporal association between epilepsy and this mental health disorder.
In turn, the high number of asthma cases related to some types of mental disorders has been investigated. These studies show a higher prevalence of mental disorders in the population of people with asthma than that found in the general population, both adults and children. Depression rates are higher in people who suffer from asthma compared to the healthy population. For all of the above, therapeutic approaches should be evaluated to mitigate the clinically considerable concurrence between asthma and mental disorder.
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