Frequency and economic burden of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in patients applying for disability benefits due to epilepsy

Background Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) resemble epileptic seizures and are often misdiagnosed as epilepsy. Objective To investigate the frequency of PNES and to calculate the economic burden of the patients who admitted to video-electroencephalographicmonitoring (VEM) to obt...

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Published in:	Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Main Authors:	Mehmet Taylan Peköz, Kezban Aslan-Kara, Turgay Demir, Gulfem Aktan, Mehmet Balal, Soner Cakmak, Hacer Bozdemir
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Thieme Revinter Publicações 2022-11-01
Subjects:	psychogenic nonepileptic seizures epilepsy retirement electroencephalography financial stress
Online Access:	http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0042-1759759