Purpose: In a nationally representative population‐based study in England, we estimated
the burden of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental comorbidities in people with epilepsy.
We investigated whether any overrepresentation of comorbidities could be explained by
epilepsy being a chronic medical or neurologic condition, or by the confounding effect of
demographic and socioeconomic factors or other health conditions. Methods: The Adult
Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007 comprised detailed interviews with 7,403 individuals …