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Would you use bupropion for mood disorder or substance use in an adult patient with previous childhood seizures that resolved?

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Would you prescribe bupropion for an adult patient with a history of childhood epilepsy that fully resolved ten years ago?

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Psychiatry · Rhode Island Hospital
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The short answer is maybe, though it would not be my first choice.

Bupropion is known to lower the seizure threshold, thus the basis of the question. Selection of an antidepressant depends on multiple factors including response to prior medications, side-effect profile, cost, presence of comorbid sy...

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