Treatment of patients with coexisting epileptic and nonepileptic seizures

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 498-502

  Blumer, Dietrich ^a   Adamolekun, Bola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating pattern of epileptic and nonepileptic seizures; Concurrence rate; Epileptic seizures; Excess of antiepileptic drugs; Nonepileptic seizures; Startle seizures

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; FELBAMATE; FLUOXETINE; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; GABAPENTIN; HYDROCODONE; LAMOTRIGINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; PROPRANOLOL; SERTRALINE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VERBAL HOSTILITY;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 33750324831     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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