The neuropsychiatric ailment of Vincent Van Gogh

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 6-9

  Bhattacharyya, Kalyan ^a   Rai, Saurabh ^a  

^a BANGUR INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Absinthe; epilepsy; M ni re's disease; Vincent Van Gogh

Indexed keywords

BROMIDE; DIGITALIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABNORMAL THINKING; ABSINTHE; ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANEMIA; ANXIETY; AUTOMUTILATION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COFFEE; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DIGITALIS INTOXICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DRAWING; EXHAUSTION; FOOD AVERSION; GASTAUT GESCHWIND SYNDROME; HALLUCINATION; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INSOMNIA; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MANIA; MENIERE DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NIGHTMARE; PAINTER; PAINTING; PICA; REVIEW; SMOKING HABIT; STOMATITIS; STUPOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TINNITUS; XANTHOPSIA;

EID: 84923052807     PISSN: 09722327     EISSN: 19983549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-2327.145286     Document Type: Review

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