Latency of epileptic and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Hulya Ozkan; Meliha Turksever; Baburhan Guldiken; Necdet Sut

doi:10.1055/s-0043-1768160

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (Jul 2023)

Latency of epileptic and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

Hulya Ozkan,
Meliha Turksever,
Baburhan Guldiken,
Necdet Sut

Affiliations

Hulya Ozkan: ORCiD; Trakya University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Edirne, Turkey.
Meliha Turksever: ORCiD; Trakya University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Edirne, Turkey.
Baburhan Guldiken: ORCiD; Trakya University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Edirne, Turkey.
Necdet Sut: ORCiD; Trakya University, School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Edirne, Turkey.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1768160
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 81, no. 07
pp. 641 – 646

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Background Due to their semiological similarities, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs) can occasionally hardly be differentiated from epileptic seizures (ESs), and long-term video-electroencephalographic monitoring (VEM) is needed for the differential diagnosis.

Published in Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

ISSN: 0004-282X (Print); 1678-4227 (Online)
Publisher: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
Country of publisher: Brazil
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Website: https://www.scielo.br/j/anp/

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