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The Lorna Myers Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) Scholarship Fund 2026 application is now open!

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What is this?The Lorna Myers PNES Scholarship Fund is a dedicated financial aid program graciously administered by Epilepsy Alliance America and supported financially by Dr. Lorna Myers who donates all royalties from the sales of her book “Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A guide” to the scholarship.  This scholarship supports students who reside in the US and […]

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Functional seizures instead of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Seemingly sanitized terminological shifts may seem progressive, but are they?

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Functional seizures: Sanitized terminological shifts may seem progressive but can be harmful Late last year, an ILAE Task Force proposal (Hingray et al., 2025) was published, urging that the term “psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES)” be replaced with the new and improved “functional/dissociative seizures (F/DS).”  It is my understanding that some of the ILAE task force

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