A5002793911- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Neurological disorders and treatments
NorthEast Regional Epilepsy Group
2014-2023
New York University
2004
ObjectiveAlthough there is general consensus that psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are treated with psychotherapy, the effectiveness of most psychotherapeutic modalities remains understudied. In this treatment series 16 patients dually diagnosed PNES and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we evaluated effect prolonged exposure therapy (PE) on reduction PNES. Secondary measures included Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) Post-Traumatic Disorder Diagnostic Scale...
ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to compare patients with intractable epilepsy psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) on the presence psychological traumas, clinical factors, and measures somatization dissociation.BackgroundSeveral studies have reported a high prevalence trauma in PNES, while less examined compared both groups. Reports been somewhat divergent some describing significantly higher physical abuse, others, emotional abuse/neglect, sexual abuse PNES those...
The first objective of this study was to examine and describe the demographic, psychiatric, trauma characteristics our sample with PNESs as a whole. Subsequently, comparison between traumatized nontraumatized patients performed regard descriptive general psychopathology symptoms. Lastly, we analyzed predictive value in distinguishing "likely" vs. "not likely" PTSD utilizing model derived from patients' psychometric test results.We collected tallied demographic psychiatric information on 61...
Stigma against patients with functional neurological disorder (FND) presents obstacles to diagnosis, treatment, and research. The lack of biomarkers the potential for symptoms be misunderstood, invalidated, or dismissed can leave patients, families, healthcare professionals at a loss. exacerbates suffering unmet needs result in poor clinical management prolonged, repetitive use resources. Our current understanding stigma FND comes from surveys documenting frustration experienced by providers...
PurposePeople with non-epileptic seizures (NES) consistently report poorer Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) than people epilepsy. Yet, unlike in epilepsy, knowledge how social factors influence the HRQoL adults NES is limited. To add to evidence base, this study explores relationship between and perceived stigma among NES, role socio-demographic characteristics.MethodsData was gathered from a survey 115 living condition, recruited online support groups. Participants provided...
The objective of this study was to examine cognitive and quality-of-life measures/quality life outcomes with adjunctive lacosamide therapy in patients treatment-resistant partial epilepsy.This a prospective, open-label, nonblinded, test-retest (within subjects) epilepsy which outcome (cognitive functioning mood/quality life) measured the same subject before after administration for 24weeks. assessment included following: Controlled Oral Word Association Test, Buschke Selective Reminding...
The objective of this study was to examine cognitive and clinical differences among three groups patients diagnosed with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs): those posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a history trauma but no PTSD, without trauma.Seventeen who were confirmed have PTSD based on the Trauma Symptom Inventory-2 (TSI-2) interview compared 29 had experienced 17 denied experiencing trauma. We analyzed demographic data, psychiatric information, characteristics,...
This study aimed to examine levels of depression and quality life in Spanish-speaking (less acculturated) immigrants with epilepsy compared those English-speaking US-born persons (PWEs).The included 85 PWEs - 38 47 PWEs. All patients underwent video-EEG monitoring completed quality-of-life inventories their dominant language (Spanish/English). Chart review clinical variables was conducted by an epileptologist.Our revealed that scores were significantly higher Hispanic (21.65±14.6) than...