Factors associated with illness representations in adults with epileptic and functional seizures: A systematic review.

Illness representations refer to a person's beliefs about their health condition and are thought to influence clinical outcomes. By understanding factors related to illness representations, potentially modifiable targets for psychological intervention can be identified. The aim of this systematic review was to synthesise the literature on factors associated with illness representations in people with epilepsy and functional seizures.

Emotion dysregulation in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A systematic review based on the extended process model.

Unlabelled: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are characterized by paroxysmal alterations in motor and sensory functions resembling epileptic seizures, but are not caused by epileptiform activity. In recent years, there has been increasing scientific interest in emotion dysregulation in patients with PNES (pwPNES), but the literature has not yet been interpreted within a broader model of emotion dysregulation. The aim of this review was therefore to synthesize the existing literature on emotion dysregulation in pwPNES within the extended process model (EPM) of emotion regulation.

Changes in Emotion Processing following Brief Augmented Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Functional Neurological Symptoms.

Background: Functional neurological symptoms (FNS) are considered non-volitional and often very disabling, but are not explainable by neurological disease or structural abnormalities. Brief Augmented Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (BAPIT) was adapted to treat the putative emotion processing deficits thought to be central to FNS aetiology and maintenance. BAPIT for FNS has previously been shown to improve levels of distress and functioning, but it is unknown whether improvements on such measures correlate with changes in emotion processing ‒ which this treatment focuses on.

Load-Dependent Interference of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus with Switching from Automatic to Controlled Processing During Random Number Generation in Parkinson's Disease.

Background: Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN DBS) ameliorates the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, some aspects of executive control are impaired with STN DBS.

Objective: We tested the prediction that (i) STN DBS interferes with switching from automatic to controlled processing during fast-paced random number generation (RNG) (ii) STN DBS-induced cognitive control changes are load-dependent.