Evidence That Emotional Maladjustment Is Worse in Men Than in Women with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 568-573

  Holmes, Mark D ^a   Dodrill, Carl B ^a,b   Bachtler, Shawn ^a   Wilensky, Alan J ^a,b   Ojemann, Linda M ^a,b   Miller, John W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional adjustment; Gender; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Neuropsychology; Nonepileptic seizures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011941640     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ebeh.2001.0268     Document Type: Article

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