Pseudopseudoseizures: Conditions That May Mimic Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

Psychosomatics

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 501-506

  Caplan, Jason P ^a   Binius, Tracy ^b   Lennon, Vanda A ^c   Pittock, Sean J ^c   Rao, Murali S ^d  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; OLIGOCLONAL BAND; OXCARBAZEPINE; RISPERIDONE; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; AGITATION; AMNESIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVERSION DISORDER; CRYING; DELUSION; DYSKINESIA; ECHOLALIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OVARY TUMOR; PARANEOPLASTIC AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PSEUDOSEIZURE; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; REVIEW; SCREAMING SYNDROME; SYNCOPE; TERATOMA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ANTI N METHYL D ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOREA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTI-N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS; CHOREA; CONVERSION DISORDER; DERMOID CYST; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SEIZURES; SYNCOPE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 84857380304     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2011.08.004     Document Type: Review

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