Psychiatric Co-Morbidities and Factors Associated with Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures: A Case-control study

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are paroxysmal subjective or objective clinical manifestations resembling seizures that do not arise from epileptiform cortical discharges. These are now considered to be ‘experiential and behavioural responses’ to internal or external stimuli [1,2]. An international consensus clinical practice statement issued in 2011 ranked PNES among the top three neuropsychiatric problems, along with anxiety/ depression and psychosis [3]. It is now considered to be a biopsych osocial disorder with multifactorial aetiology [4,5].
Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Full Length Article Source Type: research