Us suicide rate for people with Epilepsy exceeds levels in general population

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Researchers studied the prevalence of suicide among people with epilepsy compared to the population overall and estimated that the annual suicide mortality rate among those with epilepsy was 22 percent higher than in the general population. This is the first study to estimate suicide rates among people with epilepsy in a large U.S. general population.