Psychiatric comorbidities in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

BackgroundPsychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are major challenges for diagnosis and management. The heterogeneity of psychogenic is attributed to diverse psychopathological comorbidities, the causal relationship between PNES underlying psychopathologies still enigmatic.ObjectiveOur objective was study psychiatric comorbidities personality constructs in patients with compare them a control group epilepsy.MethodWe randomly recruited 33 epilepsy. All completed Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) screen Structured Clinical disorders Axis II (SCID II) disorders, Goldberg’s International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) Big Five questionnaire psychological extroversion–introversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability–neuroticism, intellect.ResultMood anxiety were highly prevalent (72.7% 54.5%, respectively); however, prevalence only cluster B disorder higher (69.7%) compared 33.3% among epilepsy (p < 0.05). Screening using SCID showed that borderline depressive significantly 0.001). Patients more likely be receiving polydrug therapy (75.8%) epileptic (45.5%); this difference statistically significant 0.05).ConclusionPsychiatric PNES.