Psychological and psychiatric aspects of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES): A systematic review
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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) need to be differentiated from epileptic seizures as the management varies for both. Presence of tongue biting, falling and urinary incontinence favors a diagnosis of epileptic seizures. We report two children with features suggestive of epileptic seizures that were eventually diagnosed as PNES with the help of video-EEG monitoring.
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Psychology Review
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0272-7358
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2016.01.003