Response to eperisone in patients of therapy-resistant dissociative convulsions: A report of two cases

Dissociative convulsions or pseudoseizures are a difficult to treat common psychiatric condition. In a subset of these patients, the chief complaint is clenching of teeth with apparent nonresponsiveness alone. Neither drugs nor psychotherapeutic interventions have been found to be of much help in it...

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Autores principales: Jha, Vijendra Nath, Singh, Pramod Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
Materias:
Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458436
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.201033
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Sumario:Dissociative convulsions or pseudoseizures are a difficult to treat common psychiatric condition. In a subset of these patients, the chief complaint is clenching of teeth with apparent nonresponsiveness alone. Neither drugs nor psychotherapeutic interventions have been found to be of much help in its management. Report of two such subsets of cases is presented, in which patients with dissociative convulsions showed sudden, dramatic, and sustained good response to the addition of a muscle relaxant eperisone.

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