Using interactional and linguistic analysis to distinguish between epileptic and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A prospective, blinded multirater study

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 139-144

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Controlled study; Conversation Analysis; Differential diagnosis; Discourse Analysis; Epilepsy; Interaction; Prospective; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEIZURES;

EID: 70249122309     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.07.018     Document Type: Article

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