Psychological trauma in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Trauma characteristics and those who develop PTSD

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 121-126

  Myers, Lorna ^a   Perrine, Kenneth ^a,b   Lancman, Martin ^a   Fleming, Melissa ^a   Lancman, Marcelo ^a  

^a Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; PTSD; Sexual abuse; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEXUAL ABUSE; SLEEP INDUCTION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYMPTOM; TEST OF MEMORY MALINGERING; TRAUMA SYMPTOM INVENTORY 2; WECHSLER ABBREVIATED SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84878237111     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.03.033     Document Type: Article

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