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Lorna Myers on Mar 14th, 2020 in
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Currently, emergency rooms, hospitals in general and medical staff are facing a serious crisis due to the Coronavirus that emerged just months ago but which quickly became a pandemic. If possible, Emergency Rooms (ERs) should be avoided unless it is absolutely necessary because resources are stretched thin, the risk for exposure to this virus or others is greater in an ER, and especially because usually ERs...
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Lorna Myers on Jul 11th, 2019 in
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In June, our team (Myers, Trobliger, Bortnik, Zeng, Segal and Lancman) published: “Dissociation and other clinical phenomena in youth with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) compared to youth with epilepsy” in the peer-reviewed journal Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy. The article had some very interesting findings which I will discuss below.
This paper compared 15 youth diagnosed with psychogenic...
Posted by
Lorna Myers on Apr 21st, 2019 in
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Today I want to write about an experience I had a few weeks ago. I was speaking with some of my colleagues at a conference about working with patients who are diagnosed with PNES. Several of them explained that they had been working with patients who had been having seizures (some of them very frequent and intense) for years. When I asked what sort of treatment they were using, they explained that most of their...
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Lorna Myers on Oct 25th, 2018 in
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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 this meeting. And as we have now become accustomed, it was successful on many, many levels and left us all feeling energized.
There were two especially novel and exciting changes this year. We heard and responded...
Posted by
Lorna Myers on Aug 10th, 2018 in
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Five years ago, at the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group, we took a leap into the unknown and organized our first ever PNES conference for patient and caregivers. Just days before the conference was to take place, we were understandably nervous. We wondered if anyone would even show up, if there was any interest in the topic, and if this would be the first and last PNES conference.
Fast forward now to five years...