Do observer and self-reports of ictal eye closure predict psychogenic nonepileptic seizures?

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 898-904

  Syed, Tanvir U ^a   Arozullah, Ahsan M ^b,c   Suciu, Gabriel P ^d   Toub, Julia ^e   Kim, Hyunmi ^e   Dougherty, Michelle L ^e   Wehner, Tim ^e   Stojic, Andrey ^e   Syed, Ishtiaq ^f   Alexopoulos, Andreas V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy semiology; Nonepileptic seizures; Pseudoseizures; Psychogenic; VEEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEIZURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 43249087463     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01456.x     Document Type: Article

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