Prevalence of anxiety disorders in patients with refractory focal epilepsy-a prospective clinic based survey

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 259-263

  Brandt, Christian ^a,b   Schoendienst, Martin ^a   Trentowska, Monika ^c   May, Theodor W ^b   Pohlmann Eden, Bernd ^d   Tuschen Caffier, Brunna ^c   Schrecke, Mario ^a   Fueratsch, Nora ^a   Witte Boelt, Karin ^b   Ebner, Alois ^a,b  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b Society for Epilepsy Research   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Focal epilepsy; Panic disorder; Prevalence; Refractory epilepsy; Social phobia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 75749116239     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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