Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Answers and questions

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 622-635

  Reuber, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorder; Conversion disorder; Dissociative disorder; Nonepileptic seizures; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DIAZEPAM;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILY THERAPY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERIA; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES;

EID: 40849115065     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.11.006     Document Type: Review

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