ArticleSeizure2021
How to do things with words: Two seminars on the naming of functional (psychogenic, non-epileptic, dissociative, conversion, …) seizures.
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- Functional/dissociative seizures: Progress not perfection.Epilepsia · 2026Article
- Proposed criteria of levels of evidence for co-occurring epilepsy in people with functional/dissociative seizures.Epilepsia · 2026Article
- Functional/dissociative seizures: Proposal for a new diagnostic label and definition by the ILAE task force.Epilepsia · 2025Article
- Pregnancy outcomes and changes to seizure frequency during pregnancy for patients with functional seizures.Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · 2025Article
- Functional neurological disorder: Practical management.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Review
- Cognitive Analytic Therapy for Functional/Dissociative Seizures in an Adolescent: Case Report and Mixed-Methods Single-Case Evaluation.Reports (MDPI) · 2025Article
- Use of an Electronic Medical Record Alert to Prevent Iatrogenic Interventions in Patients With Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2025Article
- Elevated Mortality Rate in Patients With Functional Seizures After Diagnosis and Referral.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2024Article
- Words Matter: "Functional Neurologic Disorder" or "Functional Symptom Disorder"?Neurology. Clinical practice · 2024Article
- Reflections on the CODES trial for adults with dissociative seizures: what we found and considerations for future studies.BMJ neurology open · 2024Review
- Metaphoric language in the differential diagnosis of epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: Time to move forward.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2024Article
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications to Epilepsy: a Review for the Practicing Epileptologist.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2023Review
- The natural history of terms describing functional (neurological) disorders in the medical literature of the last 60 years.Journal of neurology · 2023Article
- White Matter Structural Connectivity and Its Impact on Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: An Evidence-Based Review.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2023Review
- Changing the culture of care for children and adolescents with functional neurological disorder.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2021Article
- A survey about laughter upon viewing functional seizures.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
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. This choice of terminology is not merely academic - it affects patients' response to and understanding of their diagnosis, and their ability to navigate health care systems.This paper summarises two recent discussions hosted by the American Epilepsy Society and Functional Neurological Disorders Society on the naming of this condition. These discussions are conceptualised as the initial step of an exploration of whether it might be possible to build consensus for a new diagnostic label.
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