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 20.07.20/06:00AM ...

Adolescents with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) experience severe bullying by fellow students and school staff alike, results of a small study suggest.\ The school experience of teens with ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 22-year-old granddaughter had her first seizure less than a year ago. She had a few tests done, which showed that everything looked normal. She did an MRI, a CT scan and two ...

Many of us have experienced physical symptoms from stress and anxiety, such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, heart racing or fainting. Likewise, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) may ...

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures may go undiagnosed for much longer in veterans compared to civilians, according to a new study published in last week's issue of Neurology, the medical journal of ...

A recent study found that patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures experienced seizures significantly earlier than patients with epileptic seizures. Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic ...

One of four patients admitted to hospitals for evaluation of seizures don’t have epilepsy but rather have a debilitating and difficult to diagnose condition known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures have a standardized mortality ratio 2.5 times greater than the ...

It started with a migraine that wouldn’t go away. A day stretched into a week then to months, and still I was experiencing head pain, nausea, blurred vision and other symptoms. One day, my entire left ...

About 2,000 patients in Saskatchewan and 72,000 across Canada experience seizure-like episodes unrelated to epilepsy, but nearly half aren't receiving followup care, harming their quality of life and ...

A 24-year-old female patient presented with a history of recurrent seizures that commenced at 16 years of age, several weeks after experiencing substantial lower back trauma. The pattern of seizures ...

When Sarah Jay had her first seizure, she was in her mid-20s and working a high-stress job at a call center in Springfield, Mo. "I was going to go on break," she says. "I was heading towards the ...