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## Objective: The objective of the study was to determine whether male and female populations of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (pnes) differ, in terms of demographic, social/clinical, and etiological factors as well as psychological measures. ## Background: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures are overrepresented by females; therefore, information about pnes in males is limited. only a handful of studies have examined pnes and gender, and of those, one was a literature review and with the exception of two, most have had small sample sizes. of the existing literature, differences in abuse type, psychiatric diagnoses, and psychometric results have been observed in the two genders. ## Methods: This is a retrospective study of 51 consecutive males and 97 consecutive females with video-electroencephalogram (video-eeg) confirmed diagnosis of pnes. patients were examined on demographics (age, education, working status), clinical (seizure frequency, trauma type: sexual, nonsexual, age of first trauma), and psychometric measures. the latter included the state trait anger expression inventory-2 (staxi-2), trauma symptom inventory-2 (tsi-2), the coping inventory for stressful s

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Author

Lorna Myers; Robert Trobliger; Kirsty Bortnik; Marcelo Lancman

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)