Microstructural integrity of affective neurocircuitry in patients with dissociative seizures is associated with emotional task performance, illness severity and trauma history

Dissociative seizures (DS), also known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, are episodes of impaired awareness and motor control that can superficially resemble epileptic seizures or syncope. They are, however, the result of complex neurocognitive dysfunction that remains to be elucidated [1]. In one of the first large treatise on the topic from 1859 (421 cases of "hysteria", 305 with seizures), Pierre Briquet identified emotional stressors such as domestic violence and child maltreatment as common predisposing factors [2].

Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - November 30, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Johannes Jungilligens, J örg Wellmer, Annika Kowoll, Uwe Schlegel, Nikolai Axmacher, Stoyan Popkirov Source Type: research