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

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re familiar with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or PNES, you may be aware that proper treatment is crucial for obtaining relief. Unlike epileptic seizures, which result from brief ...

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1 out of 10 people will have a seizure during their lifetime. Most of these seizures will be epileptic seizures, which are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Youth with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures experienced an increased risk for numerous psychiatric disorders ...

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. A team of ...

There are just over 3 million Americans with epilepsy who experience seizures due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain. A smaller group of people also have seizures not caused by epilepsy – ...

Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond to medication and ...