Neuroplastic changes in patients with functional seizures following neurobehavioral therapy
Sharma; Allendorfer; Correia; Gaston; Goodman; Grayson; Philip; LaFrance; Szaflarski
Given the high prevalence of functional neurological symptom disorder and its negative effects on the individual...
Objective
Our aim was to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial of a novel cognitive behaviorally based intervention for pediatric PNES called Retraining and Control Therapy (ReACT).
Methods
Participants were randomized to receive either eight sessions of ReACT or supportive therapy, and...
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
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...
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...
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...
https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/91/8/e17.3
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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 rest of this article is behind a paywall, so I don’t know if ME gets a mention... (as some people persist in lumping it in this broad category).
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232240-100-mystery-illnesses-reveal-the-power-of-our-minds-to-influence-health/
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