Reliability of additional reported seizure manifestations to identify dissociative seizures.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Descriptions of seizure manifestations (SM), or semiology, can help localize the symptomatogenic zone and subsequently included brain regions involved in epileptic seizures, as well as identify patients with dissociative seizures (DS). Patients and witnesses are not trained observers, so these descriptions may vary from expert review of seizure video recordings of seizures. To better understand how reported factors can help identify patients with DS or epileptic seizures (ES), we evaluated the associations between more than 30 SMs and diagnosis using standardized interviews.

Methods

Based on patient- and observer-reported data from 490 patients with diagnoses documented by video-electoencephalography, we compared the rate of each SM in five mutually exclusive groups:

SUBMITTER: Kerr WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7882023 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature