Stress and other psychosocial characteristics of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Psychosomatics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 221-226

  Lumley, Mark ^a,b,c   Tojek, Tina M ^a,b,c   Barkley, Gregory ^a,b,c   Mahr, Gregory ^a,b,c   Thomas, Andrea ^a,b,c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Glaucoma Center of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS;

EID: 0034033250     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.41.3.221     Document Type: Article

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