Anticipatory anxiety of epileptic seizures: An overlooked dimension linked to trauma history.

Objective: Fear of having a seizure called anticipatory anxiety of epileptic seizure (AAS), constitutes a daily life burden but has been rarely studied. Our aim was to assess the prevalence and the determining factors of AAS in patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, a dimension that has not been thoroughly investigated before.

Methods: We conducted an observational, prospective study enrolling patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy.