Article Bites #25. Compassion First: Mortality risk of Patients with Psychogenic Nonepileptic seizures
Nightscales, R et al. “Mortality in Patients with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures.” Neurology 95.6 (2020): e643–e652. Neurology. Background Caring for psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (PNES) patients (the condition formerly known as “pseudoseizures”) in the emergency setting can be exceedingly difficult and frustrating. This is understandable because discerning between true seizure activity and a psychogenic event leads to drastically different treatment …