Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in an adolescent with epilepsy and mild intellectual disability

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 175-180

  Rodenburg, Roos ^a,b   Benjamin, Anja ^b   Meijer, Anne Marie ^b   Jongeneel, Ruud ^a  

^a Epilepsy Institute of the Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Epilepsy; Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing; Intellectual disability; Reliable Change Index; Trauma symptoms

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RATING SCALE; RELIABLE CHANGE INDEX; SLEEP DISORDER; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70249149969     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.07.015     Document Type: Article

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