Psychiatric disorders in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, with and without comorbid epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 333-339

  D'Alessio, Luciana ^a,b   Giagante, Brenda ^a,b   Oddo, Silvia ^a,b,c   Silva W, Walter ^a,b   Solís, Patrícia ^a,b   Consalvo, Damián ^a,b   Kochen, Silvia ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMOS MEJÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Conversion; Dissociation; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Psychiatric institutionalization; Psychogenic non epileptic seizures; Psychopharmacotherapy

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33744931128     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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