Terminology of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2015, Pages e21-e25

  Brigo, Francesco ^a,b   Igwe, Stanley C ^c   Ausserer, Harald ^b,d   Nardone, Raffaele ^b   Tezzon, Frediano ^b   Bongiovanni, Luigi Giuseppe ^a   Tinazzi, Michele ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b FRANZ TAPPEINER HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Federal Teaching Hospital   (Nigeria)

^d PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Google; Infodemiology; Internet; MEDLINE; PubMed; Web

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERNET; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MEDLINE; NONEPILEPTIC ATTACK; NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOSEIZURE; PSYCHOGENIC ATTACK; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC ATTACK; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; COMPLICATION; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SEIZURES;

CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84924932095     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12911     Document Type: Article

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