Oncological emergencies from pathophysiology and diagnosis to treatment: a narrative review

A Jafari, M Rezaei-Tavirani, M Salimi… - Social Work in Public …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Oncological emergencies are defined as any acute possible morbid or life-threatening
events in patients with cancer either because of the malignancy or because of their …

[HTML][HTML] The neurobiology of functional neurological disorders characterised by impaired awareness

BA Milano, M Moutoussis, L Convertino - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We review the neurobiology of Functional Neurological Disorders (FND), ie, neurological
disorders not explained by currently identifiable histopathological processes, in order to …

[HTML][HTML] Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy

CA Rodríguez, MM Kubis, CBT Arteaga… - Journal of Epilepsy …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background and Purpose Psychiatric comorbidities (PC) occur more frequently in patients
with epilepsy than in the general population. To determine the main PC associated with …

[HTML][HTML] “This is real”,“this is hard” and “I'm not making it up”: Experience of diagnosis and living with non-epileptic attack disorder

G Walsh, CE Wilson, D Hevey, S Moore, C Flynn… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose To use a qualitative research approach to explore adults' experience of living with
non-epileptic attack disorder. Objective The objective was to explore the experience of …

Psychiatric and psychological assessment of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) with no response to previous …

P Sobregrau, E Baillès, M Carreño, A Donaire… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are common imitators of epileptic
seizures. Refractoriness to antiseizure medication hinders the differential diagnosis between …

[HTML][HTML] Remarkable anecdotes illustrating the nature and effect of seizure-precipitating factors in Border Collies with idiopathic epilepsy

PJJ Mandigers, KM Santifort - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological syndromes in dogs and has
serious implications for the quality of life of both the dogs and owners. Seizure-precipitating …

Efficacy of verbal suggestion, verbal suggestion with a tuning fork, and verbal suggestion with a cotton swab for inducing the paroxysmal event during video-EEG …

PK Panda, S Badal, V Sirolia, IK Sharawat… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Video-electroencephalogram (EEG) with suggestion is widely considered the
gold standard for diagnosing psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). However, ethical …

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Diagnostic Frequency and Medical Therapies Applied to Subjects With Functional Seizures

G Schaefer Bennett, S Naik… - The Neurohospitalist, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and Purposes The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was associated
with catastrophic consequences and increased psychological distress. However, it is …

[HTML][HTML] A descriptive study of patients diagnosed with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures at a tertiary epilepsy center in the Czech Republic: One-year follow-up

L Krámská, L Myers, L Hrešková, M Jerie, Z Vojtěch - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To delineate sociodemographic data of a large sample of Czech Republic patients
diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) at the time of diagnosis and at a …

Cognitive Processing Therapy for Concurrent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: A Case Study

BH Partlow, EL Birkley - Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are the number-one medically unexplained
symptom encountered by neurologists (Brown & Reuber, 2016) and account for …