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Chapter 15 - Health-Related Quality of Life

Utility and Limitations in Patients with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

from Section 2 - Nonepileptic Seizures: Culture, Cognition, and Personality Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2018

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Hannah Wiseman ,
Gemma Mercer ,
Roy C. Martin  and
Markus Reuber
Edited by
W. Curt LaFrance, Jr  and
Steven C. Schachter
W. Curt LaFrance, Jr
Affiliation:
Brown Medical School, Providence
Steven C. Schachter
Affiliation:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
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Gates and Rowan's Nonepileptic Seizures , pp. 165 - 177
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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