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Lorna Myers on Sep 7th, 2020 in
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Spoiler alert: Important in patients who have PNES and high alexithymia
What is alexithymia?
Basically, it is, not having words for emotions (a=not having, lexi=word, thymia=emotion) or in other words, having a hard time identifying and describing feelings.
In psychology it is associated with two concepts: emotional knowledge (EK) and emotional regulation (ER).
EK has to do with: 1) Being able to identify...
Posted by
Lorna Myers on Jul 13th, 2020 in
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Recently, Goldstein et al published their results from a randomized CBT treatment versus “treatment as usual” (TAU) study in which treatment outcome in patients who had a history of dissociative seizures was compared (Goldstein et al., 2020).
The study is the largest and most well-designed study to date. It included an initial 3-month observation period — during which patients were asked to keep a careful log...
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...
Posted by
Lorna Myers on Jan 20th, 2018 in
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Yesterday, an article in print and video format came out in which a Canadian firefighter describes the long road he traveled with his diagnosis of PNES. In it, he explains how he started to have problems after experiencing three sequential traumatic experiences. These, first led to developing post-traumatic stress disorder, and then progressed into PNES (a health condition that is woefully unknown to most). His...
Posted by
Lorna Myers on Nov 4th, 2017 in
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This year we had the pleasure of holding what has now become a tradition: our annual conference on psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)—our fourth annual conference!
Some things were new this year though. To begin with, we moved our conference location from Mahwah, NJ to Morristown, NJ, where the Morristown Medical Center generously offered to host our event. Different than other years, we were not in...