Psychological Non Epileptic Seizures
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PNES Psychological Non Epileptic Seizures
Virtual psychogenic non-epileptic seizures conference for patients, loved ones and their clinicians: Update on current treatments for PNES in adults and children| Feb 28th, 2023
For six years straight, the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group (NEREG), hosted an annual PNES conference for patients, caregivers, and in the last few years, for health professionals too. Our last and sixth conference was held in 2019 and then, as we all know, the world ground to a halt due to the 2020...
Posted by on Nov 22nd, 2021 in News | 1 comment

Please join me in celebrating the 2021 winners of the Lorna Myers PNES scholarship!

This year, the Epilepsy Alliance of America awarded eight fantastic women scholarships to assist them in pursuing their education. The main criteria for this award is that the applicant must have a diagnosis...
Posted by on Jul 17th, 2021 in News | 5 comments

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)/ functional seizure (FS) conference 2021!  It is back on-...

For six years straight, the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group (NEREG), hosted an annual PNES conference for patients, caregivers, and in the later years, for health professionals too. Our last conference was...
Posted by on Jun 30th, 2021 in News | 3 comments

Meet the new Executive Director of FND Hope USA

There is so much that we need to do to improve the lives of those living with PNES.  We definitely need to increase treatment options and to ensure a growing number of clinicians are available to treat this...
Posted by on Jun 16th, 2021 in News | 0 comments

Recommendations for summer reading: a variety of choices about and by persons living with Psychogeni...

Psychoeducation: refers to some form of intervention (lecture, support group meeting or published materials) that aims to educate the audience members/readers about a specific health condition, provides...
Posted by on Jun 15th, 2021 in News | 0 comments

As someone who has PNES, what should I know about the COVID-19 vaccines?

If we can say anything for sure about COVID-19 is that there is still a lot that we do not know. Making matters worse, at times experts have communicated confusing and contradictory information to the public....
Posted by on Apr 15th, 2021 in News | 4 comments

The debate on what to call psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), non-epileptic attach disorder ...

This feature article was just published by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and summarizes meetings that took place last...

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