A neuroscience of hysteria?

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 465-469

  Broome, Matthew R ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversion; Dissociation; Hysteria; Neuroscience; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 8344227574     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001504-200411000-00008     Document Type: Review

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