The psychosocial impact of epilepsy in older people

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 2 SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Tebartz van Elst, Ludger ^a   Baker, Gus ^b   Kerr, Mike ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Welsh Epilepsy Research Network   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causation; Depression; Epilepsy; Older people; Psychosocial impact; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STROKE; SYNCOPE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WATCHFUL WAITING;

AGING; EPILEPSY; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 67349185007     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.03.015     Document Type: Article

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