Characteristics of male veterans with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1418-1422

  Dworetzky, Barbara A ^a   Strahonja Packard, Andreja ^b   Shanahan, Christopher W ^c   Paz, Jeanette ^d   Schauble, Barbara ^b   Bromfield, Edward B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Men; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; Veterans; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EXPOSURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEIZURE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URINE INCONTINENCE; ADDICTION; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPILEPSY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK FACTOR; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICS; VETERAN;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); EPILEPSY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VETERANS;

EID: 26944484846     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.13004.x     Document Type: Article

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