Epileptic seizures and pseudoseizures from the viewpoint of the hierarchy of consciousness

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 5, 1998, Pages 21-25

  Oana, Yasunori ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Dreamy state; Epilepsy; Pseudoseizures; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; AROUSAL; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DREAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AMNESIA; AROUSAL; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0031690905     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb05145.x     Document Type: Article

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