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Psychogenic Nonepileptic SeizureAka: Psychogenic Seizure, Hysterical Seizure, Pseudoseizure
- See Also
- Nonepileptic Seizure
- Causes
- Anxiety Disorder
- Panic Attacks
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Hypochondriasis
- Somatization
- Conversion Disorder
- Acute stress response
- Signs
- Atypical Seizure motor activity
- Asymmetric arm and leg movement
- Pelvic thrusting
- Head turning from side to side
- Dystonic posture
- Eyes closed and resists eyelid movement
- Tongue biting limited to tip of Tongue
- Avoidance during Seizure
- Atypical Seizure timing
- Gradual onset and last 2-3 minutes
- Waxing and waing course
- Recur frequently
- Emotional or situational triggers
- Postictal crying
- Differential Diagnosis
- See Nonepileptic Seizure
- Atypical epileptic Seizures
- Frontal lobe Seizure
- Atypical motor and verbal activity
- Often occur during sleep and brief duration
- Gelastic Seizure (laughs during Seizure)
- Myoclonic Seizurez
- Diagnosis: Inpatient Video EEG
- Typical Seizure as confirmed by witnesses of Seizure
- No corresponding EEG abnormalities
- Clinical findings that do not identify Seizure disorder
- Postictal serum Prolactin
- Tongue-biting, self-injury or Incontinence
- Psychological Testing
- Outpatient Electroencephalogram
Dissociative convulsions (C0349245)
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| Concepts | Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048)
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| English | Dissociative convulsions, Dissociative seizures, Factitious seizures, Hysterical fit, Hysterical seizures, Pseudoseizures, Sham seizures |
| Spanish | convulsiones disociativas, crisis convulsivantes disociativas, crisis histérica, crisis histerica |
| Credits | Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)
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