The EEG in nonepileptic seizures

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 340-352

  Benbadis, Selim R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTIFACT; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOGENIC NON EPILEPSY SEIZURE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; TREMOR;

ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SEIZURES;

EID: 33746825803     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnp.0000228863.92618.cf     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (34)

1. Benbadis SR. Provocative techniques should be used for the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. Arch Neurol. 2001;58:2063-2065.
2. Benbadis SR. The problem of psychogenic symptoms: is the psychiatric community in denial? Epilepsy Behav. 2005;6:9-14.
3. Benbadis SR. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. In: Wyllie E (ed). The treatment of epilepsy: Principles and practice. 4th edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005, pp. 623-630.
4. Benbadis SR. A spell in the epilepsy clinic and a history of "chronic pain" or "fibromyalgia" independently predict a diagnosis of psychogenic seizures. Epilepsy Behav. 2005;6:264-265.
5. Benbadis SR, Agrawal V, Tatum WO IV. How many patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures also have epilepsy? Neurology. 2001;57:915-917.
6. Benbadis SR, Chichkova R. Psychogenic pseudosyncope: an underestimated and provable diagnosis. Epilepsy Behav. 2006, in press.
7. Benbadis SR, Heriaud L, O'Neill E, et al. Outcome of prolonged EEG-video monitoring at a typical referral epilepsy center. Epilepsia. 2004;45:1150-1153.
8. Benbadis SR, Johnson K, Anthony K, et al. Induction of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures without placebo. Neurology. 2000;55:1904-1905.
9. Benbadis SR, Siegrist K, Tatum WO, et al. Short-term outpatient EEG video with induction in the diagnosis of psychogenic seizures. Neurology. 2004;63:1728-1730.
10. Benbadis SR, Tatum WO. Over-intepretation of EEGs and misdiagnosis of epilepsy. J Clin Neurophysiology. 2003;20:42-44.
11. Beun AM, van Emde Boas W, Dekker E. Sharp transients in the sleep EEG of healthy adults: a possible pitfall in the diagnostic assessment of seizure disorders. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1998;106:44-51.
12. Bhatia M, Sinha PK, Jain S, et al. Usefulness of short-term video EEG recording with saline induction in pseudoseizures. Acta Neurol Scand. 1997;95:363-366.
13. Blume WT, Kaibara M, Young GB. Atlas of adult electroencephalography. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001, pp. 41-172.
14. Briggs DE, Herman ST. The top 10 EEG mistakes: How to avoid them. Practical Neurology. 2004;3:42-50.
15. Carton S, Thompson PJ, Duncan JS. Non-epileptic seizures: patients' understanding and reaction to the diagnosis and impact on outcome. Seizure. 2003;12:287-294.
16. Devinski O, Sato S, Kufta CV, et al. Electroencephalographic studies of simple partial seizures with subdural electrode recordings. Neurology. 1989;39:527-533.
17. Drury I, Beydoun A. Pitfalls of EEG interpretation in epilepsy. Neurol Clin. 1993;11:857-881.
18. Eiris-Punal J, Rodriguez-Nunez A, Fernandez-Martinez N, et al. Usefulness of the head-upright tilt test for distinguishing syncope and epilepsy in children. Epilepsia. 2001;42:709-713.
19. Fahn S, Williams D. Psychogenic dystonia. Adv Neurol. 1988;50:431-455.
20. Gates JR. Provocative testing should not be used for nonepileptic seizures. Arch Neurol. 2001;58:2065-2066.
21. Kanner AM, Morris HH, Lüders H, et al. Supplementary motor seizures mimicking pseudoseizures: Some clinical differences. Neurology. 1990;40:1404-1407.
22. Krauss GL, Abdallah A, Lesser R, et al. Clinical and EEG features of patients with EEG wicket rhythms misdiagnosed with epilepsy. Neurology. 2005;14:64:1879-1883.
23. Lancman ME, Asconape JJ, Craven WJ, et al. Predictive value of induction of psychogenic seizures by suggestion. Ann Neurol. 1994;35:359-361.
24. Lesser RP, Lueders H, Dinner DS. Evidence for epilepsy is rare in patients with psychogenic seizures. Neurology. 1983;33:502-504.
25. Lesser RP, Luders H, Dinner DS, Morris H. An introduction to the basic concepts of polarity and localization. J Clin Neurophysiol. 1985;2:45-61.
26. Lim NP, Abou-Khalil BW. Temporal "third rhythm" resulting in erroneous diagnosis of epilepsy [abstract]. Epilepsia. 2004;45 (suppl7):61.
27. McGonigal A, Oto M, Russell AJ, et al. Outpatient video EEG recording in the diagnosis of non-epileptic seizures: a randomized controlled trial of simple suggestion techniques. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2002;72:549-551.
28. Mizrahi EM. Avoiding the pitfalls of EEG interpretation in childhood epilepsy. Epilepsia. 1996;37 Suppl 1:S41-51.
29. Nowack WJ. Epilepsy: a costly misdiagnosis. Clin Electroencephalogr. 1997;28:225-228.
30. Scheepers B, Clough P, Pickles C. The misdiagnosis of epilepsy: findings of a population study. Seizure. 1998;7:403-406.
31. Shinomiya S, Fukunaga T, Nagata K. Clinical aspects of the "third rhythm" of the temporal lobe. Clin Electroencephalogr. 1999;30:136-142.
32. Smith D, Defalla BA, Chadwick DW. The misdiagnosis of epilepsy and the management of refractory epilepsy in a specialist clinic. QJM. 1999;92:15-23.
33. Wyllie E, Benbadis S, Kotagal P. Psychogenic seizures and other non-epileptic paroxysmal events in children. Epilepsy Behav. 2002;3:46-50.
34. Zaidi A, Clough P, Cooper P, et al. Misdiagnosis of epilepsy: many seizure-like attacks have a cardiovascular cause. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000;36:181-184.