Comorbidity of Epileptic and Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

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Chapter 5 - Comorbidity of Epileptic and Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

Diagnostic Considerations

from Section 1 - Recognition, Diagnosis, and Impact of Nonepileptic Seizures

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2018

Peter Widdess-Walsh ,

Siddhartha Nadkarni and

Orrin Devinsky

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