Sudden religious conversions in temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 78-87

  Dewhurst, Kenneth ^a   Beard, A W ^b  

^a Littlemore Mental Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AUTOMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERSION DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MYSTICISM; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PERSONALITY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THEOLOGY;

EID: 0037733006     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-5050(02)00688-1     Document Type: Review

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