Marianna Mazza, Giacomo Della Marca, Annalisa Martini, Marta Scoppetta, Catello Vollono, Maria Azzurra Valenti, Maria Luigia Vaccario, Pietro Bria, Salvatore Mazza
OBJECTIVES: (1) To measure depressive and dissociative symptoms in a population of patients with Non-Epileptic Seizures (NES, or pseudo-seizures); (2) To compare NES with Epileptic subjects and Normal controls; (3) To try to define a personality profile specific, or typical, of NES patients. METHODS: PATIENTS: 30 consecutive patients (21 females and 9 males, mean age 32.9+/-11.7 years) with NES diagnosed on clinical basis and confirmed by video-EEG recording; 30 patients with epilepsy matched for age and sex who had presented at least two seizures in the 12 months prior to the study despite pharmacological treatment; 30 Control subjects, healthy volunteers, matched for age and sex...
April 2009: Epilepsy Research