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Lorna Myers on Feb 28th, 2023 in
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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 pandemic.
So, imagine how much excitement we feel in announcing that on April 29 NEREG will once again be hosting...
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Lorna Myers on Feb 3rd, 2023 in
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In a few weeks, a new book on PNES is going to be published and will be called: The Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (also known as dissociative seizures) Pocketbook. The word “pocketbook” is in its title because it is meant to be just that: a book that a clinician might carry in her/his pocket for quick reference when working with a person who has PNES. And it has two names for the diagnosis: psychogenic...
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Lorna Myers on Mar 21st, 2019 in
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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 to examine whether there are distinct subgroups within those who have psychogenic non-epileptic seizures...