Making sense of non-epileptic seizures

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-130

  Gene Cos, Nuri ^a,b   Ring, Howard A ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Non epileptic seizures; Pseudoseizures; Psychogenic; Seizures

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NON EPILEPTIC SEIZURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOSEIZURE; PSYCHOGENESIS; PSYCHOGENIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES;

EID: 20444462033     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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