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New article highlight: “Quality of life and psychological dysfunction in traumatized and non-traumatized patients with PNES”| Mar 21st, 2019
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 traumatized and nontraumatized patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES).” This study aimed...
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...
Posted by on Dec 8th, 2018 in News | 1 comment

The good news is that you don’t have epilepsy, instead you have something called PNES

This blog’s title depicts a common way in which many doctors explain the diagnosis of Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) to patients who are newly diagnosed with this disorder. I suspect this...
Posted by on Oct 25th, 2018 in News | 1 comment

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: Fifth Annual conference held in New Jersey in 2018

This past Saturday, we held a historic annual conference on psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)! Historic, for many reasons, one of which is because it was the FIFTH year running that we have hosted...

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