Results 21 to 30 of about 1,898 (156)

Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures after Head Injury: A Case Report

Case Reports in Medicine, 2009
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs) are diagnosed when disruptive changes in behaviour, thinking, or emotion resemble epileptic seizures (ESs), but no paroxysmal discharges are seen on electroencephalogram (EEG) and do not originate from another ...
Laura Scévola, Luciana D'Alessio, Dario Saferstein, Estela Centurión, Damián Consalvo, Silvia Kochen   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (PNES) classification: still “time for progress” [PDF]

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2021
Luciano De Paola, William Curt LaFrance Jr.   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A historical perspective

Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2021
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures have been documented, if not recognized, for over 2000 years. Conventionally, the term hysteria has been used successfully used to describe patients with nonorganic or medically unexplained convulsions.
Andrea E Cavanna
doaj   +1 more source

Localizing a metabolic focus during a functional seizure with fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography

World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2021
Traumatic brain injuries can lead to long-term mental seizures that are difficult to differentiate from dissociative psychogenic symptoms, respectively, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
Siroos Mirzaei, Barbara Preitler, Thomas Wenzel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differential diagnosis between epileptic seizures and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures based on semiology

Acta Epileptologica, 2019
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures present as paroxysmal symptoms and signs mimicking epileptic seizures. The gold standard test is the synchronous recording by video, electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram.
Xiaohui Xiang, Jiajia Fang, Yi Guo
doaj   +1 more source

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES): A review

MAMC Journal of Medical Sciences, 2019
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are observable abrupt paroxysmal changes in consciousness or behaviour that present similar to epileptic seizures but are not accompanied by the electrophysiological changes associated with epilepsy and there is a
Neera Chaudhry, Kamakshi Dhamija, Vinod Puri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: to the issue of diagnosis and patient management (with a case report)

Эпилепсия 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, D. V. Alekseeva, V. A. Mikhailov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014
Investigators at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, conducted a retrospective analysis of semiologic patterns of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) diagnosed by video EEG in 56 children aged < 18 years ...
J Gordon Millichap, John J Millichap
doaj   +1 more source

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

, 2017
IntroductionPsychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are defined as a somatoform conversion disorder manifesting as paroxysmal events not associated with electroencephalographic (EEG) epileptiform correlates.
J. Mesquita Reis, L. Queiroga, R. Rodrigues   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and personality disorders

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Epilepsy and its psychiatric comorbidities have been studied frequently over the course of the last years. However, few studies have aimed to establish the relationship between psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) and personality ...
B. Ezquerra
doaj   +1 more source