The spectrum of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and comorbidities seen in an epilepsy monitoring unit

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 361-363

  Seneviratne, Udaya ^a,b   Briggs, Belinda ^a   Lowenstern, David ^a   D'Souza, Wendyl ^a,c  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Psychiatric disorders; Psychogenic non epileptic seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NON EPILEPTIC SEIZURE; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SEIZURES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551567635     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2010.07.120     Document Type: Article

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