Driving and Epilepsy: a Review of Important Issues

Joon Y. Kang; Scott Mintzer

doi:10.1007/s11910-016-0677-y

Driving and Epilepsy: a Review of Important Issues

Joon Y. Kang, Scott Mintzer

School of Medicine

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Abstract

Driving restrictions in people with epilepsy (PWE) is a highly contentious topic. The fundamental difficulty lies in achieving a balance between safety and practicality. The aim of this review is to provide an overview, history, and rationale behind current laws regarding driving restriction in PWE. We also discuss recent findings that may be helpful to practitioners during individual discussions with PWE including seizure recurrence risk after first seizure, recurrent seizure, and anticonvulsant with drawl and driving restrictions in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES).

Original language	English (US)
Article number	80
Journal	Current neurology and neuroscience reports
Volume	16
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11910-016-0677-y
State	Published - Sep 1 2016

Keywords

Anticonvulsants
Driving
Epilepsy
Motor vehicle accident
Pseudoseizures
Seizures

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Clinical Neurology
General Neuroscience

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