Late-onset psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 649-650

  Behrouz, Reza ^a   Heriaud, Leanne ^a   Benbadis, Selim R ^a  

^a TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Non epileptic seizures; Pseudoseizures; Psychogenic; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOGENESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES;

EID: 33646084857     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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