Table of Contents

List of contributors; Preface; Dedications; Remembrances; Part I. Recognition, Diagnosis, and Impact of Nonepileptic Seizures: 1. Epidemiology and classification of nonepileptic seizures; 2. Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures – historical overview; 3. The costs and burden of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in context: PNES and other conversion disorders; 4. Clinical features and the role of video-EEG monitoring of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 5. Comorbidity of epileptic and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: diagnostic considerations; 6. Nonepileptic paroxysmal neurologic and cardiac events; 7. Parasomnias: interface with epileptic and nonepileptic seizures; 8. Hypnosis for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and psychogenic movement disorders; 9. Using linguistic analysis to discriminate between patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and patients with epilepsy; 10. Diagnosis of nonepileptic seizures in children; 11. Diagnosis of nonepileptic seizures in the elderly; Part II. Nonepileptic Seizures: Culture, Cognition, and Personality Clusters: 12. Cultural aspects of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 13. Use of neuropsychological and personality testing to identify adults with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 14. Cognitive complaints, affect disturbances, and neuropsychological functioning in adults with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 15. Health related quality of life: utility and limitations in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 16. Legal medicine considerations related to nonepileptic seizures; Part III. Psychiatric and Neuropsychological Considerations in Children and Adolescents with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: 17. Psychiatric features and management of children with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 18. Factors contributing to the onset of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in children and adolescents; 19. Adolescents' and parents' perceptions of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 20. Factitious disorders; Part IV. Psychiatric and Neuropsychological Considerations in Adults with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: 21. Classification of nonepileptic seizures; 22. Post-traumatic stress disorder, abuse and trauma: relationships to psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 23. Comorbidities in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: depressive, anxiety, and personality disorders; Part V. Treatment Considerations for Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: 24. Historical approaches to treatments for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 25. Managing psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in patients with comorbid epilepsy; 26. Models of care: nurses and social workers and their role in the management of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 27. Who should treat psychogenic nonepileptic seizures?; 28. Designing treatment plans based on the etiology of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 29. Cognitive behavioral based treatments for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 30. Family therapy for patients diagnosed with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 31. Group treatments for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 32. Pharmacological treatments for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 33. Training in treatment of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 34. The biology of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures; 35. Care models and coding for nonepileptic seizures; Appendix; Index.

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About the Author

W. Curt LaFrance Jr, M.D., M.P.H. is Director of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology at Rhode Island Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Brown Medical School, Providence. Steven C. Schachter is Chief Academic Officer, Consortia for Improving Medicine through Innovation and Technology; Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and practices in the Departments of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Reviews

'One is tempted to call this the PNES bible, made accessible by its comprehensive index. It belongs in every centre treating epileptics and complements the book published by the American Academy of Neurology in 2006.' Oliver Walusinski, European Neurology