Warning: the content in this blog post may be upsetting and hurtful to the reader-it contains insulting and coarse language found on-line describing patients with PNES
For a few months three of us have been working on a project examining how often PNES (and all the other names that this condition goes by) appears in the Internet and creating sort of tally. The way we approached this search task was by entering...
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Lorna Myers on Apr 17th, 2016 in
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The time and place: Vienna, Austria in the 1800’s. The main character of the story is real: Bertha Pappenheim (AKA Anna O). In Guises of Desire, the author, Hilda Reilly, recounts Bertha’s intense years living with these psychogenic symptoms using a wonderful combination of solid research and imagination. Ms. Reilly descriptions of Bertha’s variety of psychogenic symptoms including a persistent cough,...
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Lorna Myers on Apr 3rd, 2016 in
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Although there are estimates that suggest that PNES is more prevalent than multiple sclerosis (MS), it is far likelier that someone will have heard of MS than of PNES. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are still a long way from where this disorder needs to be in terms of what health professionals know about it and what patients and the general public know.
Raising awareness requires steady combined efforts from the...
Psychological non epileptic seizures (also known as PNES) are behavioral events that look a lot like epileptic seizures (ES), but are in fact produced by emotional stress rather than electrical disruptions in the brain.
