Functional seizures: course and complications

Post-ictal features

• There is post-ictal emotional distress
• There is post-ictal event recall
• There is no post-ictal confusion
• There is no post-ictal stertorous breathing
• There is no post-ictal Babinski response

References

1. LaFrance WC Jr, Baker GA, Duncan R, Goldstein LH, Reuber M. Minimum requirements for the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: a staged approach: a report from the International League Against Epilepsy Nonepileptic Seizures Task Force. Epilepsia 2013; 54:2005-2018. 
2. Mellers JDC. The approach to patients with "non-epileptic seizures". Postgrad Med J 2005; 81:498-504.
3. Avbersek A, Sisodiya S. Does the primary literature provide support for clinical signs used to distinguish psychogenic nonepileptic seizures from epileptic seizures? JNNP 2010; 81:719-725.
4. Duncan R. How do you identify and manage convulsive psychogenic nonepileptic seizures presenting acutely to casualty? ACNR 2012; 12:18-20.
5. Asadi-Pooya AA, Bahrami Z. Dramatic presentations in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. Seizure 2019; 65:144-147. 
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