The Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Non-Epileptic Seizures

Non-epileptic seizures (NES) are events that appear similar to epileptic seizures but present without associated epileptic brain activity [38]. In DSM-V and ICD-10 NES is considered to be a subtype of conversion disorder/ functional neurological symptom disorder [2, 51]. A lack of agreement with regard to the most appropriate term to use for NES, means there are a number of synonyms in use, which include pseudoseizures, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, non-epileptic attack disorder [34] and functional seizures; the latter has been found to be acceptable to patients and relatively popular with clinicians [3].
Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research