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Using evidence-based psychotherapy to tailor treatment for patients with functional neurological disorders

open access: yesEpilepsy & Behavior Reports, 2021
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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Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: to the issue of diagnosis and patient management (with a case report)

open access: yesЭпилепсия и пароксизмальные состояния, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures as a frequent diagnostic problem [PDF]

open access: yesPraxis Medica, 2015
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
doaj   +1 more source

Caregiver burden in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures [PDF]

open access: yesSeizure, 2020
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Late-Onset Generalized Myoclonic Seizure: Case Report

open access: yesArchives of Epilepsy, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesSeizure, 2014
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
openaire   +2 more sources

The relation of fibromyalgia and fibromyalgia symptoms to self-reported seizures.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Nursing a Patient with Nonepileptic Seizures — Case Report

open access: yesPielęgniarstwo Neurologiczne i Neurochirurgiczne, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of the human fear-circuitry and acute sociogenic pseudoneurological symptoms: The Neolithic balanced-polymorphism hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In light of the increasing threat of large-scale massacres such as terrorism against non-combatants (civilians), more attention is warranted not only to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also to acute sociogenic pseudoneurological ("conversion ...
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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