A review of seizures and epilepsy following traumatic brain injury

S Fordington, M Manford - Journal of neurology, 2020 - Springer
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the commonest presentations to emergency
departments and is associated with seizures carrying different significance at different …

Nonepileptic seizures: an updated review

DL Perez, WC LaFrance - CNS spectrums, 2016 - cambridge.org
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are a functional neurological
disorder/conversion disorder subtype, which are neurobehavioral conditions at the interface …

Multicenter pilot treatment trial for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: a randomized clinical trial

WC LaFrance, GL Baird, JJ Barry, AS Blum… - JAMA …, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is a paucity of controlled treatment trials for the treatment of conversion
disorder, seizures type, also known as psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) …

Mortality in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

R Nightscales, L McCartney, C Auvrez, G Tao… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To investigate the hypothesis that patients diagnosed with psychogenic
nonepileptic seizures (PNES) on video-EEG monitoring (VEM) have increased mortality by …

Psychiatric and behavioral comorbidities in epilepsy: a critical reappraisal

AT Berg, HH Altalib, O Devinsky - Epilepsia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric and behavioral disorders are important aspects of epilepsy and have received
increasing attention in the last several years. The literature upon which most of the field …

Epidemiology of epilepsy

S Abramovici, A Bagić - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2016 - Elsevier
Modern epidemiology of epilepsy maximizes the benefits of advanced diagnostic methods
and sophisticated techniques for case ascertainment in order to increase the diagnostic …

Treatment of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) using video telehealth

WC LaFrance Jr, WLN Ho, A Bhatla, GL Baird… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Previous studies have shown the effectiveness of manual‐based treatment for
psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), but access to mental health care still remains a …

Perspectives of zebrafish models of epilepsy: what, how and where next?

AM Stewart, D Desmond, E Kyzar, S Gaikwad… - Brain research …, 2012 - Elsevier
Epilepsy is a complex brain disorder with multiple underlying causes and poorly understood
pathogenetic mechanisms. Animal models have been indispensable tools in experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Patient and caregiver quality of life in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures compared to epileptic seizures

I Karakis, GD Montouris, C Piperidou, M San Luciano… - Seizure, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose Little is known about the effect of psychogenic non epileptic seizures (PNES) to
caregiver quality of life (QOL), particularly as it compares to epileptic seizures (ES). We …

Traumatic brain injury and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures yield worse outcomes

WC LaFrance Jr, M DeLuca, JT Machan, JL Fava - Epilepsia, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To investigate the relationship between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and
psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). We hypothesized that PNES with TBI would be …