Behavioural mechanisms involved in pseudo-epileptic seizures: A comparison between patients with epileptic seizures and patients with pseudo-epileptic seizures

Seizure

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 275-282

  Aldenkamp, Albert P ^a,b   Mulder, Olaf G ^b  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER KEMPENHAEGHE   (Netherlands)

^b Amsterdam and Zwolle Epilepsy Center   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hysterical seizures; Pseudoseizures; Psychogenic seizures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; SEIZURE; SOMATIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEIZURES; SICK ROLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0030766778     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(97)80074-X     Document Type: Article

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