title: Differential diagnosis in pseudoepileptic seizures.
abstract: With increasing use of intensive video-EEG monitoring, publications concerning pseudoepileptic seizures have burgeoned, but without clarification concerning differing psychopathologic mechanisms and without distinction of different syndromic varieties. The frequent concurrence of pseudoepileptic and epileptic seizures has not been sufficiently recognized, and an undue reliance on clinical experience on the one hand and individual tests such as EEG on the other has proven equally misleading in this group of cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ozkara
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Dreifuss
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D017034:Epilepsy, Frontal Lobe / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D013690:Television