PMC:6610386 / 5893-6748 JSONTXT

{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/6610386","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"6610386","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/6610386","text":"The continued contact between the neurologically oriented clinicians and the psychotherapists highlights a particular conundrum that exists between epilepsy and PNES. If a patient with epilepsy has a seizure, a clinician asks about antecedent conditions, sleep, infections, missed medications, or even stress. If clear antecedents explain an altered seizure threshold, then there may be little justification to overhaul the treatment. Most epilepsy specialists would be comfortable in the short term saying the treatment is effective, and the seizure was explainable by the context. Yet this does not commonly happen with PNES. Most neurologists are uncomfortable treating PNES, even though they represent a sizeable percentage of epilepsy monitoring unit admissions, preferring instead that such patients exclusively become the realm of the psychiatrist.","tracks":[]}