Management of Hysterical Seizures in Epileptic Patients

Ramani, Venkat; Gumnit, Robert J.

doi:10.1001/archneur.1982.00510140012003

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“…Other organic brain syndromes with personality or cognitive deterioration and mental retardation may also predispose epileptic patients to the development of pseudoseizures, whether organic alexithymia is present or not, in the context of endangered coping skills (Fenton, 1986;Lesser, 1985;Savard and Andermann, 1990). Such patients may at times embellish minor seizure symptomatology by lack of a better means of alerting their doctor to their uncontrolled epilepsy (Ramani, 1980).…”

Section: Psychiatric Etiologymentioning

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Convulsive Pseudoseizures: A Review of Current Concepts

Savard

Andermann

1990

Behavioural Neurology

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Convulsive pseudoseizures thought to represent psychiatric disease can usually be detected early if they are considered in the epileptologist's differential diagnosis. No single diagnostic criterion for this behavioural disorder is known to be pathognomonic. Epilepsy and all physiological explanations have to be thoroughly ruled out and positive evidence of relevant psychopathology has to be gathered. The presence of pseudo seizures often heralds severe psychopathology, most frequently major affective disorder and major personality disorder, and occasionally, factitious disorder. Pseudoseizures can coexist with epileptic seizures and are often triggered by anticonvulsant toxicity. Diagnostic problems are more likely to be encountered in patients with frontal or parietal epilepsies, and in patients whose severe psychopathology is refractory to psychiatric intervention.

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Section: Psychiatric Etiologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Convulsive Pseudoseizures: A Review of Current Concepts

Savard

Andermann

1990

Behavioural Neurology

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“…For example, socially anxious individuals have a greater tendency to avoid faces expressing angry emotions (Heuer et al, 2007). A comparable tendency to avoid angry faces on the AAT has also been found with people who have Psychogenic Non Epileptic Seizures (Bakvis et al, 2011), who are thought to have a learned pattern of avoidant behaviour to cope with stressful situations (Ramani et al, 1980). This learned avoidance is likely to have a detrimental impact on social functioning, as this may also be accompanied by avoidance of social interaction and general aversive behaviour in social settings.…”

Section: Social Approach and Avoidance Motivationsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Social cognition and schizophrenia.

Corrigan¹,

Penn²

2001

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“…Em primeiro lugar, chama atenção não somente o número representativo de trabalhos nos periódicos de psiquiatria, mas também a preocupação com a 'positividade' do diagnóstico, no que concerne à histeria. Por um lado, a utilização deste termo garantia a detecção dos fenômenos psicopatológicos; por outro, alguns autores (Ramani et al, 1980;Chodoff, 1982) temiam que o uso indiscriminado e, por vezes, pejorativo dos termos histeria, personalidade histérica e histeria conversiva não só anulasse a sua utilidade clínica, como também pudesse conduzir a raciocínios clínicos equivocados. Em segundo lugar, os artigos do período apontam não somente um declínio da prevalência da histeria entre as mulheres, mas também seu crescimento entre os homens.…”

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Crise não epiléptica psicogênica: história e crítica de um conceito

Kurcgant

Ayres²

2011

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos

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Discute o desenvolvimento do conhecimento psiquiátrico sobre a crise não epiléptica psicogênica (CNEP), buscando iluminar os pressupostos epistemológicos do conceito e suas implicações práticas. Em sua definição atual, crises ou ataques recorrentes são manifestações comportamentais semelhantes às da epilepsia, mas que dela diferem por não serem consequentes de descargas elétricas cerebrais anormais, podendo ter origem psicogênica. Em direção inversa da metafísica, investiga-se a emergência histórica do conceito de CNEP nos últimos quarenta anos. Conceitos de comorbidade psiquiátrica, abuso e dissociação foram discutidos devido a sua participação na trajetória conceitual de CNEP.

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Management of Hysterical Seizures in Epileptic Patients

Cited by 65 publications

References 8 publications

Convulsive Pseudoseizures: A Review of Current Concepts

Convulsive Pseudoseizures: A Review of Current Concepts

Social cognition and schizophrenia.

Crise não epiléptica psicogênica: história e crítica de um conceito

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