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Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures and Pseudo-Refractory Epilepsy, a Management Challenge [PDF]
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are neurobehavioral conditions positioned in a gray zone, not infrequently a no-man land, that lies in the intersection between Neurology and Psychiatry.
Francesca Anzellotti +14 more
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Functional neurological disorder (FND) frequently presents with comorbid psychopathology (e.g., anxiety, depressive, post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), somatic symptom and pain syndromes, and dissociative and personality disorders).
Lorna Myers +3 more
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Establishing misdiagnosis “epilepsy” is a common event comprising 25% total cases of “pharmacoresistant” forms. Eventually, the majority of cases resulted in diagnosing psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or functional seizures, conversion seizures, and ...
N. I. Shova +2 more
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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures as a frequent diagnostic problem [PDF]
Introduction: Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures represent a paroxysmal event followed by a sudden change of behavior, cognition or consciousness, mostly of short duration, which resemble or can be understood as epileptic seizures.
Škrijelj Fadil +2 more
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Caregiver burden in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures [PDF]
Caregiver burden in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) is an important but understudied reality. The objective of this exploratory study was to quantify caregiver burden in PNES and to identify the patient and caregiver characteristics associated with it.PNES patients and their identified caregivers completed surveys about demographic, disease ...
Ioannis, Karakis +7 more
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Late-Onset Generalized Myoclonic Seizure: Case Report
Most of the epileptic seizures that begin at an advanced age are focal onset seizures due to an underlying structural lesion. Generalized myoclonic seizures, usually seen in adolescence, are very rare in elderly patients without a history of epilepsy. In
Hülya ÖZKAN +4 more
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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in Iran [PDF]
We investigated the demographic and clinical characteristics of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) in patients in Iran.In this prospective study, all patients with a clinical diagnosis of PNES (based on ictal recordings) were recruited at the outpatient epilepsy clinic at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, from 2008 through 2013.
Asadi-Pooya, Ali A. +2 more
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Nursing a Patient with Nonepileptic Seizures — Case Report
Introduction. Differentiation of epileptic seizures from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) is problematic and leads to wrong diagnosis. It is estimated that among patients diagnosed with epilepsy, as many as 20–40% suffered from pseudo-epileptic ...
Piotr Wojda
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The relation of fibromyalgia and fibromyalgia symptoms to self-reported seizures.
ObjectiveSeveral epidemiological and clinical reports associate fibromyalgia (FM) with seizure disorders, and clinical studies associate FM diagnosis with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
Johannes J Rasker +4 more
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Patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) may exhibit similar clinical features to patients with epileptic seizures (ES). Misdiagnosis of PNES and ES can lead to inappropriate treatment and significant morbidity. This study investigates the
Wenjuan Xiong +4 more
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