Alistair Wardrope, Barbara A Dworetzky, Gregory L Barkley, Gaston Baslet, Jeffrey Buchhalter, Julia Doss, Laura H Goldstein, Mark Hallett, Kasia Kozlowska, W Curt LaFrance, Aileen McGonigal, Bridget Mildon, Maria Oto, David L Perez, Ellen Riker, Nicole A Roberts, Jon Stone, Benjamin Tolchin, Markus Reuber
Amongst the most important conditions in the differential diagnosis of epilepsy is the one that manifests as paroxysms of altered behaviour, awareness, sensation or sense of bodily control in ways that often resemble epileptic seizures, but without the abnormal excessive or synchronous electrical activity in the brain that defines these. Despite this importance, there remains little agreement - and frequent debate - on what to call this condition, known inter alia as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), dissociative seizures (DS), functional seizures (FS), non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD), pseudoseizures, conversion disorder with seizures, and by many other labels besides...
December 2021: Seizure: the Journal of the British Epilepsy Association