Psychiatric disorders, trauma, and MMPI profile in a Spanish sample of nonepileptic seizure patients

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 310-315

  Baillés, Eva ^a   Pintor, Luis ^a   Fernandez Egea, Emili ^a   Torres, Xavier ^a   Matrai, Silvia ^a   De Pablo, Joan ^a   Arroyo, Santiago ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b EISAI INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; MMPI; Nonepileptic seizures; Personality; Psychiatric disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; INTERVIEW; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PARANOIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MMPI; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 3242723386     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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