Psychogenic nonepileptic "seizures" or "attacks"? It's not just semantics: seizures

Affiliations

¹ Division of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Potter 3, Providence, RI 02903, USA. William_LaFrance_Jr@Brown.edu

Review

W Curt LaFrance Jr. Neurology. 2010.

. 2010 Jul 6;75(1):87-8.

doi: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181e62181.

¹ Division of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Potter 3, Providence, RI 02903, USA. William_LaFrance_Jr@Brown.edu

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Psychogenic nonepileptic "seizures " or "attacks"? It's not just semantics: attacks: psychogenic nonepileptic "seizures" or "attacks"? It's not just semantics: seizures.
Sethi NK, Sethi P, Torgovnick J, Arsura E. Sethi NK, et al. Neurology. 2010 Dec 7;75(23):2135; author reply 2136-7. Neurology. 2010. PMID: 21188779 No abstract available.

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