Trauma, stress, and preconscious threat processing in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1001-1011

  Bakvis, Patricia ^a,b,c   Roelofs, Karin ^c   Kuyk, Jarl ^b   Edelbroek, Peter M ^b   Swinkels, Wilhelmina A M ^b   Spinhoven, Philip ^c,d  

^a Department of Psychology/   (Netherlands)

^b STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angry faces; Dissociative seizures; Masked emotional Stroop; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; Psychotrauma; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; SALIVA LEVEL; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; SALIVA; SEIZURES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549170497     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01862.x     Document Type: Article

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