Publications by authors named "J F Drazkowski"
Objective: Driving is a critical topic to counsel among patients with epileptic seizures (ES) and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), with significant legal and public health implications. This prospective cohort study examined the frequency of ES and PNES in a single institution's Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) and assessed driving-related issues between each group.
Methods: Adult patients from the Mayo Clinic Arizona Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) were given comprehensive surveys addressing driving history.
Background And Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of smartphone videos (SVs) of neurologic events in adult epilepsy outpatients. The use of home video recording in patients with neurological disease states is increasing. Experts interpretation of outpatient smartphone videos of seizures and neurological events has demonstrated similar diagnostic accuracy to inpatient video-electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Misdiagnosis of epilepsy is common. Video electroencephalogram provides a definitive diagnosis but is impractical for many patients referred for evaluation of epilepsy.
Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of outpatient smartphone videos in epilepsy.
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus secondary to acute porphyria crisis.
Epilepsy Behav Case Rep
November 2018
Both variegate and acute intermittent porphyria can manifest with various neurological symptoms. Although acute symptomatic seizures have been previously described, they are typically tonic-clonic and focal impaired awareness seizures. Convulsive status epilepticus and epilepsia partialis continua are rare and have been described on a case report basis.
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- Psychological assessments, like the MMPI-2-RF, are used to differentiate between epilepsy and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) in epilepsy monitoring units.
- A study by Del Bene et al. (2017) compared MMPI-2-RF results by sex, and this research aimed to replicate that with a larger sample.
- The findings indicated that both men and women with PNES reported significantly higher levels of somatic complaints than those with epilepsy, while mood disturbances were not notably elevated in the PNES group, highlighting somatization as a common issue across genders.