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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), also referred to as pseudoseizures, non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD), functional seizures, or dissociative...

to be psychogenic in origin include psychogenic seizures, psychogenic polydipsia, psychogenic tremor, and psychogenic pain. The term psychogenic disease...

one unprovoked seizure and where there is a high risk of additional seizures in the future. Conditions that look like epileptic seizures but are not include:...

some seizures are not due to electrical disturbances in the brain, such as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. MedlinePlus Encyclopedia: Seizures "Convulsions:...

and heart arrhythmias. Psychological causes are known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Diagnosis may be based on the history of the event and physical...

Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria or mass hysteria, involves the spread...

psychogenic polydipsia are forms of polydipsia characterised by excessive fluid intake in the absence of physiological stimuli to drink. Psychogenic polydipsia...

Psychogenic pain is physical pain that is caused, increased, or prolonged by mental, emotional, or behavioral factors, without evidence of physical injury...

Dissociative amnesia or psychogenic amnesia is a dissociative disorder "characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps. These gaps involve an inability...

Dissociative fugue (/fjuːɡ/ FYOOG), formerly called a fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a rare psychiatric phenomenon characterized by reversible amnesia...

bites are also relatively common in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are seizure like behavior without an associated...

called hypermotor seizures. When associated with bizarre movements and vocalizations these seizures are often misdiagnosed as psychogenic or functional sezures...

nature and severity of the resulting seizures (ranging from brief absence seizures to full tonic–clonic seizures). Many PSE patients experience an "aura"...

head, a number of blood tests, and an electroencephalogram. Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures may present similarly to status epilepticus. Other conditions...

Blackouts (also called dissociative or non-epileptic seizures/attacks) – these may look like epileptic seizures or faints Movement disorders including tremors...

serum sodium level is diluted to an extent that seizures and cardiac arrest can occur. While psychogenic polydipsia is generally not found outside the population...

convulsive seizures, may be a sign of non-epileptic seizures. Usually such seizures are instead related to syncope or have a psychogenic origin ("pseudoseizures")...

mass hysteria than a seizure. A study following 103 patients over three years after the event found that most had no further seizures. Although approximately...

including schizophrenia, psychogenic fugue, Tourette syndrome, epilepsy (in complex partial seizures and Jacksonian seizures), narcolepsy, or in response...

or a sensation of a lump in the throat Urinary retention Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures or convulsions Persistent dystonia Tremor, myoclonus or other...