Post-traumatic stress and relationships to coping and alexithymia in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

Seizure

Volumn 57, Issue , 2018, Pages 70-75

  Zeng, Ruifan ^a   Myers, Lorna ^a   Lancman, Marcelo ^a  

^a Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Coping; Emotion; PNES; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COPING INVENTORY FOR STRESSFUL SITUATION; COPING INVENTORY FOR STRESSFUL SITUATION FOR STRESSFUL SITUATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SEIZURE; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; TRAUMA SYMPTOM INVENTORY 2; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMORBIDITY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEIZURES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85044154141     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2018.03.011     Document Type: Article

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