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Convulsive Seizures
From an unusually broad experience as neurologist and neurosurgeon and with profound understanding of the psychological and psychiatric problems involved, the author writes on the problems of seizures and of the individuals suffering from them. The etiology of seizures, their diagnosis, their varieties (grand and petit mal, psychomotor attacks) are discussed. Electroencephalography is described...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1905
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-190503000-00014