Stress coping strategies in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and how they relate to trauma symptoms, alexithymia, anger and mood

Seizure

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 634-639

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

^a Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Coping; Depression; Non epileptic; Psychogenic seizures; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPING BEHAVIOR; COPING INVENTORY FOR STRESSFUL SITUATIONS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MOOD; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARD; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANGER; COPING; DEPRESSION; NON-EPILEPTIC; PSYCHOGENIC SEIZURES; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; ANGER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEIZURES; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84883490858     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2013.04.018     Document Type: Article

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