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Talking about psychogenic non epileptic seizures in Guadalajara, Mexico

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Last week, I was invited to the Third International Neuropsychology conference in Guadalajara on Rehabilitation and Epilepsy. It gave me a wonderful opportunity to talk about a little known condition that is actually quite common in epilepsy centers: psychogenic non epileptic seizures.  The conference had drawn 500 attendees (psychology students, neuropsychologists and neurologists from all …

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Video EEG monitoring: the “Gold Standard” when diagnosing psychogenic (psychological) non epileptic seizures

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Can someone tell if the difference between a PNES spell and an epileptic seizure (ES) just by looking at the spell itself?  Answer: NO What is Video EEG Telemetry and how is it useful to make a PNES diagnosis? Newer technology allows doctors to monitor electrical activity in the patient’s brain during epileptic events.  In …

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The connection between Psychological (Psychogenic) non epileptic seizures and a history of trauma

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How many people with PNES have a history of trauma? An interesting article was published in the Journal Epilepsy and Behavior ( 2004) by Fiszman et.  al. It reviewed 17 PNES studies and found that traumatic events and PTSD in persons with PNES were very common.  Depending on the study: 44-100% of PNES patients had …

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