Despite the substantial prevalence of psychogenic disorders (from 50% to 70% of patients who report to physicians of various specialities are treated for psychogenic, functional disorders), these disorders continue to be relatively poorly understood (Hamilton et al., 1996; Mace & Trimble, 1996). Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are one variety of psychogenic disorders. PNES are sudden c...

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...

In the majority of cases published between 1907 and 2014, FAS is due to a neurogenic etiology. Only a few reports about FAS with an assumed psychogenic origin have been published. The present article discusses the findings of a careful database search on psychogenic FAS. This review may be particularly relevant as it is the first to analyze the salient features of psychogenic FAS cases to date....

OBJECTIVES To review the clinical characteristics and associated features found in patients with psychogenic tremor. METHODS Ten-year retrospective review of charts of all patients and videotapes of fifty-one patients diagnosed by the senior author as having psychogenic tremor. RESULTS Seventy patients fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for clinically definite psychogenic tremors. Psychogeni...

BACKGROUND Implantable loop recorders (ILR) have been found to be useful in the diagnosis and management of syncope of unclear etiology. The clinical symptoms of abnormalities seen during ILR monitoring have not been adequately studied. AIM The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the clinical symptoms which were the best predictors of asystolic or bradycardic responses during ILR...

abstract explaining the etiology of complex regional pain syndrome (crps) from the psychogenic model is exceedingly unsophisticated, because neurocognitive deficits, neuroanatomical abnormalities, and distortions in cognitive mapping are features of crps pathology. more importantly, many people who have developed crps have no history of mental illness. the psychogenic model offers comfort to ph...