Are there physical risk factors for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in patients with epilepsy?

Seizure

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 561-567

  Reuber, Markus ^a   Qurishi, Assadulah ^b   Bauer, Jürgen ^b   Helmstaedter, Christoph ^b   Fernández, Guillén ^b   Widman, Guido ^b   Elger, Christian E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissociative seizures; EEG; Epilepsy; MRI; Neuropsychological tests; Pseudoseizures; Psychogenic non epileptic seizures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EEG ABNORMALITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0344668634     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(03)00064-5     Document Type: Article

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