Prevalence of alexithymia in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and epileptic seizures and predictors in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-157

  Myers, Lorna ^a   Matzner, Barbara ^a   Lancman, Martin ^a   Perrine, Kenneth ^a,b   Lancman, Marcelo ^a  

^a Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Cynicism; Depression; Dissociation; Non epileptic; Psychogenic seizures; Psychological trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTION; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; TRAUMA SYMPTOM INVENTORY II;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEIZURES;

EID: 84872380827     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.11.054     Document Type: Article

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