Evaluating patients with suspected nonepileptic psychogenic seizures

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 292-298

  Marchetti, Renato Luiz ^a,b   Kurcgant, Daniela ^a   Neto, José Gallucci ^a   Von Bismark, Mary Ann ^a   Fiore, Lia Arno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; SEIZURE; SOMATIZATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349642537     PISSN: 08950172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/jnp.2009.21.3.292     Document Type: Article

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