Predicting psychogenic nonepileptic seizures with the Personality Assessment Inventory and seizure variables

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 505-510

  Hill, Stacy W ^a   Gale, Shawn D ^b  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Personality Assessment Inventory; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; Seizure duration; Seizure semiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PREDICTION; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONVERSION DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80054990852     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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