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Epilepsy Research and Treatment
Volume 2011, Article ID 274736, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/274736
Review Article

Prognosis and Outcome Predictors in Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

Joseph Durrant,1 Hugh Rickards,1 and Andrea E. Cavanna1,2

1Department of Neuropsychiatry, BSMHFT and University of Birmingham, Barberry Building, 25 Vincent Drive, Birmingham B152FG, UK
2Department of Neuropsychiatry, UCL Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG, UK

Received 27 October 2010; Accepted 11 January 2011

Academic Editor: Luigi Maria Specchio

Copyright © 2011 Joseph Durrant et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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