Whether they are called pseudoseizures, non-epileptic seizures, non-epileptic attack disorder, psychogenic seizures or paroxysmal somatoform disorder, 'attacks resembling or mistaken for epilepsy but which do not have the characteristic electrophysiological changes in the brain detectable by electroencephalography which accompany a true epileptic seizure" are common, easily overlooked, often mi...

An epileptic girl with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome had seizures triggered specifically by blinking, but not by other eye movements or by photic stimulation. Electrographic and clinical seizures were most reliably precipitated by repetitive blinking produced voluntarily on command, by reflex blinking on corneal stimulation, or by psychogenic triggers of blinking such as social stress or cognitive ef...

BACKGROUND Distinguishing epileptic from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) often requires video electroencephalography (EEG) recording. Inpatient recording is a limited resource; some evidence suggests that short term video EEG (SVEEG) is useful, but its role in practice has yet to be evaluated. OBJECTIVE To assess the usefulness of SVEEG in the diagnosis of attack disorders. METHOD...