Shame in patients with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizure: a narrative review

An emotion is the subjective experience of a mental state that directs our attention, guides our actions and is often accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes [1 –3]. Traditional ideas of conversion and dissociation and more recent explanatory models based on emotion processing have linked Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (PNES) closely with emotions [4]. In support of these theories, experimental studies have demonstrated abnormalities of emotion sensiti vity, intensity, perception, tolerance, regulation and baseline arousal when comparing patients with PNES to those with epilepsy, healthy controls, or control groups with similar levels of trauma [5–8].

Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - October 25, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: M Reuber, Nicole A. Roberts, Liat Levita, Cordelia Gray, Lorna Myers Source Type: research