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The importance of acknowledging diagnostic uncertainty in patients with new‐onset paroxysmal spells

Epilepsia Open, 2021
Objective The aims of this study were to evaluate the frequency of paroxysmal spells of indeterminate nature (PSIN) in a large cohort of children and adults with suspected new‐onset seizures, to evaluate the reasons for including patients in this ...
Tarek El Halabi, Maya Dirani, Wassim Nasreddine, Ghassan Hmaimess, Sandra El Sabbagh, Jaafar Wazne, Hassan Toufaili, Dana Hasbini, Ahmad Beydoun   +8 more
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Peripheral inflammatory markers and metabolic profiles in temporal lobe epilepsy and functional dissociative seizures

Epileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and functional dissociative seizures (FDS) are distinct conditions that share overlapping clinical, neuropsychiatric, and biological features, including depressive symptoms, obesity‐related metabolic dysregulation, and alterations in systemic inflammatory markers.
Betül Merd, Şeyma Benli, Fatmanur Merd, Meltem Sönmez, Füsun Ferda Erdoğan   +4 more
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Nonepileptic Seizures During Sleep

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1993
Nonepileptic (psychogenic or pseudo) seizures (NESs) were documented by video-electroencephalographic monitoring during apparent sleep in 12 patients reported from New York University School of Medicine.
J Gordon Millichap
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Developmental atlas of phase-amplitude coupling between physiologic high-frequency oscillations and slow waves

Nature Communications, 2023
We investigated the developmental changes in high-frequency oscillation (HFO) and Modulation Index (MI) – the coupling measure between HFO and slow-wave phase.
Kazuki Sakakura, Naoto Kuroda, Masaki Sonoda, Takumi Mitsuhashi, Ethan Firestone, Aimee F. Luat, Neena I. Marupudi, Sandeep Sood, Eishi Asano   +8 more
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Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A case series

Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2021
Manifestation of abnormal excessive synchronous cortical activity, which is what defines epileptic seizures, is typically absent in seizures with psychological etiology, a heterogeneous set of factors that have been identified. Distinguishing psychogenic
Nishtha Gupta, Supriya Davis, Sana Dhamija, Archana Javadekar, Daniel Saldanha   +4 more
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by frequent psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A case report

Acute Medicine & Surgery
Background Coexistence of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures has rarely been reported. Herein, we report a case of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
Daichi Yomogida, Hiroyuki Kuwano, Tatsuya Miyakoshi, Shiori Mizuta, Shinjiro Horikawa, Yoshinao Koshida   +5 more
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ADHD in Children with Benign Epilepsy and Siblings

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2011
The prevalence and characteristics of ADHD in children with benign epilepsy and in their nonepileptic siblings were compared in a prospective study at Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
J Gordon Millichap
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Treatment of Severe Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder with Comorbid Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Functional Neurological Disorder in an Inpatient Setting: A Case for Specialist Units without Restrictive Interventions

Case Reports in Psychiatry, 2021
We present the case of a young woman with an Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) diagnosis suffering from high-risk self-injurious behaviour.
Jessica Henry, Eddie Collins, Amanda Griffin, Jorge Zimbron   +3 more
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Pediatric new‐onset seizure‐like events: Yield of diagnostic work‐up

Epileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To assess the diagnostic yield of ancillary investigations in children presenting with new‐onset seizure‐like events (SLEs) at a tertiary first seizure clinic (FSC). Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study including 1213 children evaluated for new‐onset SLEs at a tertiary FSC.
Geertruida Slinger, Lotte Noorlag, Willem M. Otte, Maeike Zijlmans, Rosalie L. Neijzen, Sandra M. A. van der Salm, Floor E. Jansen, Kees P. J. Braun, Eric van Diessen   +8 more
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Staring Spells: Epileptic or Nonepileptic Events

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1998
A parental questionnaire containing 25 items to distinguish epileptic (absence seizures [AS]) and nonepileptic staring [NES] characteristics in 40 children presenting with staring spells was tested at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.
J Gordon Millichap
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