Psychological Non Epileptic Seizures
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Action versus inaction: when is one preferable to the other in the treatment of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures?| Apr 21st, 2019
African common toad with warts Today I want to write about an experience I had a few weeks ago. I was speaking with some of my colleagues at a conference about working with patients who are diagnosed with PNES.  Several of them explained that they had been working with patients who had been having seizures...
Posted by on Apr 10th, 2019 in News | 0 comments

New article: Long-term outcome in a sample of underprivileged patients with psychogenic nonepileptic...

This month, researchers from Argentina (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y del ENyS) together with Dr. Lorna Myers (Director, Psychogenic...
Posted by on Mar 21st, 2019 in News | 0 comments

New article highlight: “Quality of life and psychological dysfunction in traumatized and non-t...

In March, our summer intern, Nadine Boesten, together with her supervisors Ben Wijnen and Lorna Myers published an article with the following title: “Quality of life and psychological dysfunction in...
Posted by on Mar 14th, 2019 in News | 0 comments

What term do YOU prefer to use when naming your health condition (AKA psychogenic non-epileptic seiz...

Late last year, we posted a survey on the homepage of www.nonepilepticseizures.com that addresses the age-old question: what should we call these particular non-epileptic episodes?  The difference in this...
Posted by on Mar 13th, 2019 in News | 0 comments

“‘dis-sociated’ – The first ever feature documentary on PNES

I’m Clea, the director, producer and editor of dis-sociated, the first feature-length documentary about Dissociative Seizures which is now available to watch on YouTube: I was inspired to create this...
Posted by on Mar 4th, 2019 in News | 2 comments

The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) features an article about psychogenic non-epileptic...

There is one thing we can be sure of: if we are going to be successful in disseminating information and educating the public (professional and general) about PNES, we need to make sure it is reported on and...
Posted by on Jan 31st, 2019 in News | 0 comments

New article compares patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) to patients with intrac...

This month, several colleagues at the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group published a new article: “Psychological trauma, somatization, dissociation, and psychiatric comorbidities in patients...

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