Psychological Non Epileptic Seizures
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PNES Psychological Non Epileptic Seizures
| May 2nd, 2017
Recently, I put out an invitation to persons living with PNES to submit writing samples (poems, write-ups, personal stories, etc).  The purpose of opening up the blog like this is to give a voice to persons living with PNES on a platform that is read in the US and abroad and that will reach others who are...
Posted by on Mar 5th, 2017 in News | 3 comments

Why is scientific research in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) so important and if you see ...

A researcher of the brain You may not believe this if you are currently living with PNES and encountering a lot of the day to day challenges that come with it, but the panorama for PNES is actually improving...
Posted by on Jan 23rd, 2017 in News | 3 comments

Prolonged exposure therapy for the treatment of patients diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic se...

We’d be hard pressed to find a clinician or researcher who doesn’t agree that the proper treatment for a confirmed diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) or non-epileptic attack disorder...
Posted by on Jan 16th, 2017 in News | 0 comments

Riding 40 miles for seizures #2

A year ago, riding in a bike marathon seemed like an impossible challenge since I had only ever ridden my bicycle recreationally, had never done anything marathon-like ever before and had not even been an...
Posted by on Nov 26th, 2016 in health, News, psychology | 0 comments

Recommendations for books having to do with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures as holiday gifts 2016

My position has always been that the gift of knowledge is maybe one of the most wonderful gifts we can give to others.  That’s why I so value the work teachers do.  I am still in awe of how children...
Posted by on Oct 9th, 2016 in News | 1 comment

Towards an integrative theory of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) by Richard J. Brown, Mark...

beauty child at the blackboard I’d like to use this month’s blog post to highlight a superb article that was published this year on psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in Clinical Psychology Review (issue...
Posted by on Oct 7th, 2016 in News | 0 comments

What do those diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures receive along with the diagnosis of ...

For many it may have taken months to years to reach the point of lying in the hospital bed hearing the words: you don’t have “epilepsy,” you have something we call “psychogenic non-epileptic...

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