Psychologic treatment of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 737-752

  Reuber, Markus ^a   Howlett, Stephanie ^b   Kemp, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive behavioral therapy; Conversion disorder; Dissociation; Functional symptoms; Post traumatic stress disorder; Pseudoseizures; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; Psychotherapy; Somatization; Somatoform disorder

Indexed keywords

TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONVERSION DISORDER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPILEPSY; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FAMILY THERAPY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALINGERING; META ANALYSIS; MOOD DISORDER; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SEIZURES;

EID: 27944464528     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.5.6.737     Document Type: Review

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