OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to present and discuss the psychiatric diagnoses of patients who presented psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) during video-electroencephalographic monitoring (VEEG). METHODS Out of 98 patients, a total of 28 patients presented PNES during the diagnostic procedure. In those cases in which the PNES that occurred during VEEG were validated by clinical history (cl...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether surgery to reduce or control epileptic seizures is safe and effective in patients known to have additional psychogenic seizures. DESIGN We reviewed our computerized database of 1342 patients examined for epilepsy surgery and identified 13 patients with both epileptic and psychogenic seizures on whom postoperative outcome data were available. Data were gathered from...

Despite significant advances in epileptology, the differential diagnosis of epileptic and pseudoepileptic seizures continues to be a considerable challenge. The problem becomes even more complicated when epileptic and psychogenic pseudoepileptic seizures coexist in the same patient. Appropriate psychological measures may be helpful in the diagnosis and may improve knowledge about aetiological f...

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES), also known as pseudoseizure, pseudo-epileptic seizure and psychogenic seizure, is a psychologically based disorder accompanied with abnormal movements, sensations, emotions and/or behaviors that mimic epileptic seizures, but does not originate from a neurological disturbance (1-3). Psychogenic seizure, historically known as hysterical seizure (3, 4), is...

Tore Sørlie Psychiatry Research Group Institute of Clinical Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences University of Tromsø and Clinic for General Psychiatry University Hospital of Northern Norway A man in his forties had been repeatedly assessed over a period of 15 years at neurological departments and specialised epilepsy hospitals. The conclusion was always psychogenic, non-epileptic seizures (PNES...

INTRODUCTION Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are the most common manifestation of functional (psychogenic) neurological symptoms. Clinically, they consist of intermittent episodes that resemble epileptic seizures and can involve changes in behaviour, movement, sensation, autonomic function or consciousness. To date, there are no positive EEG features that have been identified that are...