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Webinar: Adult Epilepsy: Common Clinical Issues and New Therapies
Event Date: November 2, 2015 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
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Drs in Florida are increasingly diagnosing Epilepsy pts with "pseudo- seizures" which they say is not related to Epilepsy. They appear to be using this diagnosis when not able to produce a seizure under Veeg or regular 3 minute in office eeg. Can you talk about Psuedo-seizures and why the focus on them as the default diagnosis until proven otherwise?
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From Dr. Shih: At Mayo Clinic Florida, I use the term Non-epileptic Events or NEE (rather than the term pseudoseizures). I do not have any specific information on how doctors in Florida outside of the Mayo Clinic diagnose NEE, or why they may be doing so more frequently. In our hands, NEE is not a default diagnosis, but rather a diagnosis usually made after testing in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU).
Dr. Shih also provided me with a great pdf describing the symptoms, causes, risk factors and treatment of this problem. If you'll send me an email at spiceland.lauren@mayo.edu, I'll forward the pdf to you.