Panic attack symptoms differentiate patients with epilepsy from those with psychogenic nonepileptic spells (PNES)

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 210-214

  Hendrickson, Rick ^a   Popescu, Alexandra ^a   Dixit, Ronak ^b   Ghearing, Gena ^a   Bagic, Anto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Epilepsy; Panic attack; Psychogenic nonepileptic spells; Psychogenic seizures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILL; DEPERSONALIZATION; DEREALIZATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DIZZINESS; DSM-IV-TR; DYSPNEA; EPILEPSY; FEAR; FEAR OF DYING; FEMALE; HEART PALPITATION; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; PANIC; PARESTHESIA; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEATING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; UNSTEADINESS; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; ANXIETY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PANIC DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905392368     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2014.06.026     Document Type: Article

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