The impact of psychiatric intervention on patients with uncontrolled seizures

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 167, Issue 10, 1979, Pages 626-631

  Williams, Daniel T ^a   Gold, Arnold P ^a   Shrout, Patrick ^a   Shaffer, David ^a   Adams, David ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HYPNOSIS; HYSTERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEIZURE; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; HYSTERIA; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 0018567799     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-197910000-00007     Document Type: Article

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