Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, prospective clinical experience: Diagnosis, clinical features, risk factors, psychiatric comorbidity, treatment outcome

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Hovorka, Jiří ^a   Nežádal, Tomáš ^a   Herman, Erik ^a   Němcová, Iveta ^a   Bajaček, Michal ^b  

^a Na Franti ku Hospital   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dissociative seizures; MRI findings; Psychiatric co morbidity; Psychogenic non epileptic seizures; Therapeutic outcomes; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; LAMOTRIGINE; MOOD STABILIZER; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PREGABALIN; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ZIPRASIDONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOGENIC NON EPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 40449089477     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2008.0156     Document Type: Article

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