Psychogenic, nonepileptic seizures associated with video-EEG-verified sleep

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-68

  Orbach, Darren ^a   Ritaccio, Anthony ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion disorder; Nonepileptic seizures; Sleep; Video EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONVERSION DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SLEEP PATTERN; VIDEORECORDER; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; COHORT STUDIES; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0038341753     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.29302.x     Document Type: Article

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