Short-term outpatient EEG video with induction in the diagnosis of psychogenic seizures

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1728-1730

  Benbadis, S R ^a,b,c,d   Siegrist, K ^a   Tatum, W O ^a,c   Heriaud, L ^c   Anthony, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; METHODOLOGY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS; REFLEX EPILEPSY; SEIZURE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 8644283684     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000143273.18099.50     Document Type: Article

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