Motiveless firesetting: Implicating partial limbic seizure kindling by revived memories of fires in "limbic psychotic trigger reaction"

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 970-982

  Pontius, Anneliese A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARSON; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FEMALE; FIRE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; KINDLING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; FIRES; FIRESETTING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISORDERS; SEIZURES;

EID: 0033142714     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1999.88.3.970     Document Type: Article

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