A CLINICO-ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF PYSCHOGENIC NON EPILEPTIC SEIZURES IN EASTERN INDIAN POPULATION
Praveen Kumar Yadav*, MBBS, MD, DM, MRCP, FRCP and Asif Iqbal Siddiki, DNEP
ABSTRACT
Psychogenic non epileptic seizures (PNES) are events which resemble seizure clinically but do not have an electrical co-relation in Electroencephalogram and have an underlying psychological cause for the same.[1-3] Incidence of PNES is approximately 1.5/100,000 persons per year. The incidence is about 4% of that of incidence epilepsy.[4-5] However in Epilepsy units the almost a quarter of patients with difficult to treat epilepsy may be actually having non epileptic events.[6-7]
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