VIDEO ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STUDY IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED PSEUDOSEIZURES.

Ayush Dubey

Abstract


Seizure is a very common symptom of presentation in Neurology. It should be differentiated from pseudoseizures as seizures require long term use
of anti epileptics which may sometimes continue for whole life. Pseudoseizures, on the other hand, require proper counseling and reassurance.
There are different criteria to identify the differences between these two but at times, pseudoseizures may be confusing to the treating physician and
hence require video EEG monitoring to rule out true seizures. We did a study on all such patients and present our results here.


Keywords


Video EEG, pseudoseizures

Full Text:

PDF

References


Ramsay RE, Cohen A, Brown MC. Coexisting epilepsy and non-epileptic seizures. In: Rowan JA, Gates JR, editors. Non-Epileptic Seizures. 1st ed. Butterworth-Heinemann;1993.p47-54

Benbadis SR, Agrawal V, Tatum WO. How many patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures also have epilepsy? Neurology 2001;57:915–7.

Martin R, Burneo JG, Prasad A, Powell T, Faught E, Knowlton R, et al. Frequency of epilepsy in patients with psychogenic seizures monitored by video-EEG. Neurology 2003;61:1791–2.

LaFrance Jr, W. Curt, Baker, Gus A., Duncan, Rod, Goldstein, Laura H., Reuber, Markus, 2013. Minimum requirements for the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: a staged approach. Epilepsia 54 (11), 2005–2018.

Rowan A. James, Siegel Michael, Rosenbaum David H. Daytime intensive monitoring comparison with prolonged intensive and ambulatory monitoring. Neurology. 1987;37(3) 481–481

Gates John. Non-Epileptic Seizures. Second ed. Butterworth Heinemann; 2000. Part summary: neurologic aspects of non-epileptic seizures in the adult and pediatric patient.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.