Non-epileptic seizures of the elderly

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 251, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 704-709

  Kellinghaus, Christoph ^a,b   Loddenkemper, Tobias ^a,b   Dinner, Dudley S ^a   Lachhwani, Deepak ^a   Lüders, Hans O ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elderly; Non epileptic seizures; Psychogenic seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS; REINFORCEMENT; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYNCOPE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 3042545912     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-004-0406-3     Document Type: Article

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