Dysphoric disorders and paroxysmal affects: Recognition and treatment of epilepsy-related psychiatric disorders

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 8-17

  Blumer, Dietrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; IMIPRAMINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DYSPHORIA; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0034057687     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/hrp.8.1.8     Document Type: Review

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