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A Case of Dissociative Seizures Presented like Myoclonic Epilepsy
Psychogenic seizures are often underdiagnosed and epilepsy is very often over-treated which leads to multiple financial, social and stigma related difficulties. The myoclonic seizure itself is a rare phenomenon and when functional movement disorder presents like myoclonus then it’s extremely difficu...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Publishing
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5936042/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736136 http://dx.doi.org/10.11919/j.issn.1002-0829.217157 |
Sumario: | Psychogenic seizures are often underdiagnosed and epilepsy is very often over-treated which leads to multiple financial, social and stigma related difficulties. The myoclonic seizure itself is a rare phenomenon and when functional movement disorder presents like myoclonus then it’s extremely difficult to pinpoint the exact cause. Here, we are presenting a case who was misdiagnosed as having a myoclonic seizure disorder and treated in multiple places without any improvement which ultimately turned out to be functional movement disorder of a rare variety. |
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