The death rate for patients with functional, nonepileptic seizures is higher than expected, with a rate comparable to epilepsy and severe mental illness, a Michigan Medicine-led study finds.

Using a combination of the known risk factors for epilepsy and non-epileptic seizures reported in 228 clinical notes the team examined, their algorithm achieved a diagnosis accuracy of 65%.

Functional seizures not caused by epilepsy are associated with structural changes in the brain that can be seen using MRI, a new study shows. Scientist have long understood the nonepileptic ...

Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizure Patients May Find Benefit With Flexible ... An estimated 5% to 10% of outpatients in epilepsy clinics and 20% to 40% of inpatients in epilepsy monitoring units ...

People with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) appear to have higher rates of childhood trauma compared with people with epilepsy, according to a new report published in Epilepsia.. The ...

Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures have a standardized mortality ratio 2.5 times greater than the general population and die at a rate similar to patients with drug-resistant epilepsy ...

Tonee has PNES, a type of non-epileptic seizure disorder that causes her to lose her sight. During that episode, she sat with Asher near the road, hoping it would pass.

One in four people who are tested for epilepsy do not have the disease but instead have a psychological condition called psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). At 21:00PM BST on 20.07.20/06 ...

More information: Benjamin Tolchin et al. Adherence with psychotherapy and treatment outcomes with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, Neurology (2019).DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000006848 ...

Also known as PNES, non-epileptic seizures result from a psychiatric disorder rather than a neurological one. For those with PNES, Yale researchers linked the continued use of psychotherapy with ...