Editorial: Epilepsy and aggression: Proceed with caution

Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 1720-1721

  Fessler, A James ^a   Treiman, David M ^b  

^a STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; STEREOTYPY; VIOLENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS;

EID: 73349093716     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c467af     Document Type: Editorial

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