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Evaluating Patients With Suspected Nonepileptic Psychogenic Seizures
Fecha
2009Registro en:
JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES, v.21, n.3, p.292-298, 2009
0895-0172
Autor
MARCHETTI, Renato Luiz
KURCGANT, Daniela
GALLUCCI NETO, Jose
BISMARK, Mary Ann von
FIORE, Lia Arno
Institución
Resumen
The authors evaluate 26 patients with suspected psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) who were referred to prolonged intensive video EEG (VEEG) in an epilepsy diagnostic center at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Following the investigative protocol, 50% of the patients received a diagnosis of PNES, 15.4% of epilepsy, and 34.6% of associated PNES and epilepsy. In all patients in our series, PNES were the pseudo-neurological presentations of dissociative or conversion symptoms in patients presenting the following mental disorders: conversion disorder, somatization or undifferentiated somatoform disorder, dissociative disorder not otherwise specified, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychiatric comorbidities, mostly depressive disorders, were frequent. (The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2009; 21: 292-298)