Head-up tilting is a useful provocative test for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Seizure

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 353-355

  Zaidi, Amir ^a   Crampton, Suzanne ^b   Clough, Peter ^b   Fitzpatrick, Adam ^a   Scheepers, Bruce ^b  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head up tilt test; Psychogenic non epileptic attack disorder; Seizure provocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PSYCHOGENESIS; SEIZURE; TILTING;

EID: 0032882452     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/seiz.1999.0302     Document Type: Article

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