ARE BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS A FAKE DIAGNOSIS?

Nonepileptic behavioral disorders: diagnosis and treatment.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article will review the important steps in making an accurate diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic events or episodes (PNEE), and recent developments in diagnosis and treatment. RECENT FINDINGS Several clues can be obtained from the history to help the clinician suspect the diagnosis of PNEE. While none of these clues are diagnostic on their own, each is valuable, and ...

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Behavioral Disorders and Acupuncture

Behavioral disorders are considered risk factors for relinquishment of pet dogs and cats to shelters. While acupuncture may be a safe and effective treatment option, there is little in the scientific literature to support its use. There are, however, several reports in human medicine on the use of acupuncture to treat a variety of emotional disturbances, as well as animal model research that ha...

Experiential Avoidance and Behavioral Disorders: A Functional Dimensional Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

Syndromal classification is a well-developed diagnostic system but has failed to deliver on its promise of the identification of functional pathological processes. Functional analysis is tightly connected to treatment but has failed to develop testable. replicable classification systems. Functional diagnostic dimensions are suggested as a way to develop the functional classification approach, a...

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Received: 3 October 2005 Accepted: 3 October 2005 One of my most memorable experiences with Claudio occured in Cleveland about 10 years ago. I was serving as department chair, and had organized a semester long research seminar, bringing one great scholar in for a full week, every week of the term. During their week in residence, the visitors would give two seminars and meet informally with facu...