Treating patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 207-211

  Reuber, Markus ^a   House, Allan O ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036219972     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200204000-00014     Document Type: Review

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