treatment for PNES Archives - Non Epileptic Seizures

The Psychogenic non-epileptic Seizures Pocketbook-Why Julia Doss wrote it

1 Comment / 2023 / Lorna Myers

Writing the “Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures Pocketbook” came about after many years of treating patients with PNES and training other clinicians in treating them. It has been humbling and rewarding to work with families and their children and watch them get better and grow into their adulthood. But this isn’t how my career initially started. In […]

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The Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizure Pocketbook: Why I wrote it

Virtual psychogenic non-epileptic seizures conference for patients, loved ones and their clinicians: Update on current treatments for PNES in adults and children

3 Comments / 2023, News / administrator

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,

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Testimonial: Two years seizure free

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For this month’s blog post, we have the pleasure and honor of having invited writer, Katie Berger, author of “View from the Floor: Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: A patient’s perspective” share her experiences with us. Wonderfully, she has now been seizure-free for two years, but I urge you to read her story because in it you

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

5 Comments / 2021, News / administrator

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 held on 2019 and then, as we all know, the world ground to a halt due to the 2020 pandemic. Although we did not

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Meet the new Executive Director of FND Hope USA

3 Comments / 2021, News / administrator

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 health condition. To achieve this, research on treatment outcome is a necessity, and as such, funding is

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What if a patient has psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) but does not report any significant psychological trauma?

4 Comments / 2021, News / administrator

It is important for mental health professionals to be cognizant of this because these patients exist and are encountered in psychotherapists’ offices with certain regularity. For decades if not centuries (if we look back to Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud) it has been understood that psychological trauma is an important risk factor in the development

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Studying Emotion, Relationships, and Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures (PNES) at Arizona State University

Leave a Comment / 2020, News / administrator

This month’s blog post comes to us from sunny Arizona, more specifically, Dayana Villarreal, Graduate Student, Arizona State University. Below, you are invited to read about her current research project on PNES. She hopes you may decide to take an online survey that will be used to better understand the inner workings of PNES.

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How important is alexithymia in the treatment of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)? (Post for clinicians)

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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

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Breaking news: Results of a major Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Study for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (dissociative seizures) just published

5 Comments / 2020, News / administrator

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

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