dissociative seizures

very long piece (I've only skimmed through it). https://newrepublic.com/article/168965/might-long-covid-wrong eta: (from Esther12) Archive link that avoids giving them clicks: https://archive.vn/L471V

interesting video on youtube: any reason this tech couldn't be used to monitor 'non-epileptic seizures/dissociative seizures' ? (got to be better than the Chalder CODES cbt)

Leading FND researchers (including Stone, Carson, Perez, Edwards) argue that the diagnosis of FND must now be a positive one, i.e. based on rule-in signs rather than being solely a diagnosis of exclusion. One implication, as David Tuller has shown, is that this reduces the overall prevalence of...

Highlights • Functional seizures remains a complex neuropsychiatric condition to identify and treat. • Practitioners must address management of physical symptoms and underlying causes. • Management strategies can fail if their reasoning is not properly communicated. • Better outcomes may result...

Highlights Follow-up after mindfulness-based therapy for PNES conducted at 3–6 months. Fourteen (54%) of 26 patients attended follow-up. PNES frequency, intensity, and days per week with PNES remained improved. Illness perception, worry, and feeling understood improved over the course of MBT...

Highlights An interdisciplinary review of patients’ and professionals perceptions of the functions and effects of naming of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Presents a range of considerations for and against different choices of nomenclature. Arguments for, and a trajectory towards...

Highlights PNES may be associated with a history of previous trauma/abuse. Abuse was more commonly reported in the PNES group than the epilepsy group. Future research should control for the effects of comorbid depression and anxiety in patients with PNES. Abstract Psychogenic nonepileptic...

Essential oil related seizures (EORS): A multi-center prospective study on essential oils and seizures in adults Thomas Mathew Gareth J Parrya https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2021.106626 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920121121000796?dgcid=raven_sd_aip_email

" Abstract Background The PHQ-9 is a self-administered depression screening instrument. Little is known about its utility and accuracy in detecting depression in adults with dissociative seizures (DS). Objectives Using the Mini – International Neuropsychiatric Interview as a reference, we...

Abstract Functional [psychogenic nonepileptic/dissociative] seizures (FND-seiz) and related functional neurological disorder subtypes were of immense interest to early founders of modern-day neurology and psychiatry. Unfortunately, the divide that occurred between the both specialties throughout...

Psychological and psychiatric aspects of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES): A systematic review - PubMed (nih.gov) I thought this review from 2016 of Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) was quite interesting because it suggests we know very little about this condition and that the...

Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178120332054 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113544

there was an episode of Diagnosis detectives on bbc last week: The cardologist turns out to be wrong. The neurologist explains that the seizures are either from epilepsy or 'dissasociative seizures'; interestingly they do conduct tests and manage to get results when the patient is actually...

Paywall, https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/30/jnnp-2019-322281 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1136/jnnp-2019-322281

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/91/8/e17.3 BNPA Abstracts 2020 Members’ Poster Abstracts 24 An analysis of sentiment and publicity of functional neurological disorder and non-epileptic attack disorder on twitter Felix May, Rohan Kandasamy Author affiliations Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit...

The abstract is very long (see below) so I will highlight the conclusion: Abstract https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32681745/ Am I wrong, or are scandinavian psychologists more and more critical of the doxa? Edit: paragraph breaks are mine.

Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033318220301560 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.psym.2020.05.016

Paywall, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546805.2020.1791061 Not available via Sci hub at time of posting.

Open access, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/epi.16532

CODEs study group ProfLaura HGoldsteinPhDaEmily JRobinsonMScbgJohn D CMellersMRCPsychhProfJonStonePhDiProfAlanCarsonMDiProfMarkusReuberPhDjNickMedfordPhDhProfPaulMcCronePhDcJoannaMurrayBAdProfMark...