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Lorna Myers on Jul 17th, 2021 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 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 host our 7th annual PNES conference last year, there have been very positive changes that have...
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Lorna Myers on Jun 30th, 2021 in
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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 required. Until now, clinical trials have been conducted on relatively small samples [except for a...
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Lorna Myers on Mar 13th, 2021 in
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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 of PNES and other conversion disorders. However, we can really...
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Lorna Myers on Nov 25th, 2020 in
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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.
When I joined the emotion research lab at Arizona State University (ASU) as a...
Posted by
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...