Outcome in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: 1 to 10-year follow-up in 164 patients

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-311

  Reuber, Markus ^a   Pukrop, Ralf ^b   Bauer, Jürgen ^c   Helmstaedter, Christoph ^c   Tessendorf, Natalie ^c   Erich Elger, Christian ^c  

^a SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPULSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; ONSET AGE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEIZURE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037371073     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.3000     Document Type: Article

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