Ictal stuttering: A sign suggestive of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 516-519

  Vossler, D G ^a,b   Haltiner, A M ^a   Schepp, S K ^c   Friel, P A ^a   Caylor, L M ^a   Morgan, J D ^a   Doherty, M J ^a,b,c  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; HYSTERIA; ICTAL STUTTERING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOGENESIS; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUTTERING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 3543069384     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000133208.57562.CB     Document Type: Review

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