Are Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures an Expression of "Neurologic" Pathology?

Psychiatric Controversies in Epilepsy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 153-177

  Reuber, Markus ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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