Hyperventilation-Induced Non-epileptic Seizures in an Adolescent Boy with Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress
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عنوان ژورنال: Harvard Review of Psychiatry
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1465-7309,1067-3229
DOI: 10.1097/hrp.0000000000000131