Sociodemographics, clinical features, and psychiatric comorbidities of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Experience at a specialized epilepsy center in Turkey

Seizure

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 458-461

  Bora, Ibrahim Hakki ^a   Taskapilioglu, Ozlem ^a   Seferoglu, Meral ^a   Kotan, Ozan Vahap ^a   Bican, Aylin ^a   Ozkaya, Guven ^a   Akkaya, Cengiz ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Nonepileptic seizures; Psychiatric disorders; Psychogenic seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; EDUCATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958281782     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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