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25 lut 2024 · Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are relatively common but poorly understood and often misdiagnosed as epilepsy, which can lead to unnecessary procedures and treatments along with the possibility of failure to engage patients in necessary behavioral health care.
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are nonepileptic events resembling seizures or syncopal attacks. The etiology, epidemiology, clinical features, and diagnosis of PNES are discussed in this review. Management and prognosis are reviewed separately.
The differential diagnosis of PNES firstly involves ruling out epilepsy as the cause of the seizure episodes, along with other organic causes of non-epileptic seizures, including syncope, migraine, vertigo, anoxia, hypoglycemia, and stroke.
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (PNES) involves attacks that resemble epilepsy-related seizures in symptoms and signs, but abnormal electrical activity in your brain doesn’t cause them. Instead, the seizures are a physical reaction to underlying psychological distress.
20 sty 2020 · Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are paroxysmal changes that mimic epileptic seizures, so often misdiagnosed and treated for epilepsy. PNES are considered a psychiatric illness, personality pathology, and experiential and behavioral manifestation of depression.
7 paź 2016 · Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are paroxysmal, involuntary changes in behavior, sensation, motor activity, cognitive processing (including change in level of consciousness), or autonomic function linked to a dysfunction in the processing of psychological or social distress .
1 maj 2018 · A neurobiological conceptual framework has been proposed explaining psychogenic nonepileptic seizures as a dysfunction of the brain areas involved in the emotion processing responsible for sensorimotor and cognitive processes.
