Are we overusing the diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic events?

Seizure

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 223-227

  Parra, Jaime ^a   Iriarte, Jorge ^a   Kanner, Andrés M ^a  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion disorder diagnosis; Epilepsy diagnosis; Long term video EEG telemetry; Pseudoseizures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOGENESIS; SEIZURE;

EID: 0033150549     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/seiz.1999.0285     Document Type: Article

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