Clinical classification of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures based on video-EEG analysis and automatic clustering

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 955-960

  Hubsch, Cécile ^a   Baumann, Cédric ^a   Hingray, Coraline ^a   Gospodaru, Nicolaie ^a,b   Vignal, Jean Pierre ^a,c   Vespignani, Hervé ^a,b,c   Maillard, Louis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC CLUSTERING; CHILD; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE DURATION; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; HYPERVENTILATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOCTURNAL SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPISTHOTONUS; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PRIMITIVE GESTURAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOSYNCOPE; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL ABUSE; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREMOR; URINE INCONTINENCE; VIDEO ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; VIOLENCE; VOCALIZATION; WAILING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERKINESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SYNCOPE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051549631     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.235424     Document Type: Article

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