Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: A benign disorder? Personality traits and psychiatric symptoms

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 560-564

  Plattner, Belinda ^a,b   Pahs, Gerald ^c   Kindler, Jochen ^a   Williams, Ryan Patrick ^b   Hall, Rebecca Elizabeth ^b   Mayer, Hannes ^a   Steiner, Hans ^b   Feucht, Martha ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIV KLIN KINDER JUGENDHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Personality; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SELF CONTROL; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; ETHOSUXIMIDE; FEMALE; FRUCTOSE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; PIRACETAM; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRIAZINES; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 34248644054     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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