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Despite the increasing interest to psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES)
showed over the past decade, less attention has been paid to semiological
classification of events and its correlation to psychiatric disturbances
underlying PNES. We have reviewed all 17 cases diagnosed with only PNES during
2000-2001 years in the Institute, in which conversion disorder contributes to
76,4% and somatization and posttraumatic stress disorders respectively each to
11,8%. Based on clinical semiology of events we have classified them on four
groups: fainting-like, demonstrative, disruptive and grand mal-like. All
patients but one experienced only one type of psychogenic seizures. The
observations should be reassessed in a large sample size.
Keywords:
psychogenic
nonepileptic seizures, semiologic classification, psychiatric diagnoses
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