Outcome of Pseudoseizures in Children and Adolescents

Abstract

A 6-year symptom survival analysis of 17 patients admitted as in-patients and/or day patients to the tertiary psychiatric ward at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK, for pseudoseizures, without concomitant epilepsy, was conducted using case-note data.

Keywords

• abdominal pain
• traumatizing sexual experience
• sick role behavior