Abnormal somatosensory evoked potentials in two patients with conversion disorder

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 222-225

  Yazici, Kazim M ^a   Demirci, Mehmet ^a   Demir, Basaran ^a   Ertugrul, Aygun ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conversion disorder; Evoked potentials; Hysteria; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; CONVERSION DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCALP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GAIT ATAXIA; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH DISORDERS; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842634967     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2003.01221.x     Document Type: Article

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