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Patients with epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: An inpatient video-EEG monitoring study.
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PMID:  21945365     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Seizure and EEG characteristics of patients with epilepsy and concomitant psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) were compared to age and sex matched controls with epilepsy alone in a retrospective case control study. 39 patients with clearly documented epileptic and non-epileptic events were compared to 78 age and sex matched controls, sequentially admitted for video-EEG monitoring with documentation of epilepsy alone. Frontal seizures were higher in prevalence in patients with PNES who had concomitant epilepsy (P<0.001), while temporal seizures were higher in prevalence in patients with epilepsy alone (P<0.04). On regression analysis, the odds of having a frontal seizure was found to be significantly lower in the epilepsy alone group compared to the epilepsy+PNES group (odds ratio 0.13, 95% CI, 0.033-0.51). This significant association between frontal lobe epilepsy and PNES may be related to misattribution of frontal seizures for PNES events, or may reflect frontal lobe cortical dysfunction in this subgroup.
Authors:
Jagan A Pillai; Sheryl R Haut
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Publication Detail:
Type:  -     Date:  2011-9-23
Journal Detail:
Title:  Seizure : the journal of the British Epilepsy Association     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1532-2688     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-9-27     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9306979     Medline TA:  Seizure     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011 British Epilepsy Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Comprehensive Epilepsy Management Center, Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 111 E 210th st Bronx, NY 10467, USA; Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 111 E 210th st Bronx, NY 10467, USA.
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