Psychogenic nonepileptic "seizures" or "attacks"?: It's not just semantics: Attacks

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 84-86

  Benbadis, Selim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SEIZURE; SEMANTICS; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 77954635709     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181e6216f     Document Type: Article

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