Seizure metaphors differ in patients' accounts of epileptic and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 994-1000

  Plug, Leendert ^b   Sharrack, Basil ^a   Reuber, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; History taking; Language; Metaphors; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; SEIZURE;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METAPHOR; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549160098     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01798.x     Document Type: Article

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