Psychiatric disease in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures referred from an epilepsy unit in a general hospital;Patología psiquiátrica en pacientes con crisis no epilépticas psicógenas derivados a una unidad de epilepsia en un hospital general

Actas Espanolas de Psiquiatria

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 76-81

  Bailles E ^a   Pintor, L ^a   Torres, X ^a   Fernandez Egea E ^a   De Pablo, J ^a   Arroyo, S ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b Froedtert Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociative disorders; Psychiatric disorders; Psychogenic non epileptic seizures; Traumatic experiences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONALITY DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEIZURE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SEIZURES;

EID: 2042443065     PISSN: 11399287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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