Psychogenic seizures

Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1499-1507

  Lesser, Ronald P ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; HYSTERIA; MILIEU THERAPY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0029922554     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.46.6.1499     Document Type: Review

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