title: In defense of Pseudoseizure.
abstract: There continues to be disagreement over the best term for behavior that simulates an epileptic seizure. In the author's view, pseudoseizure is the most accurate of the expressions currently in use, and fears about its potentially damaging effects are unfounded. Even pseudoseizure, however, fails to convey the behavioral nature of the phenomenon in question, for it identifies what the problem is not, rather than what it is.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Slavney
mesh_terms: D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012803:Sick Role; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*