The Identification of Torsades de Pointes via CEEG: A Case Report on a Patient with Physiologically Provoked Nonepileptic Events.

Continuous electroencephalography (CEEG) is chiefly performed at The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) for identifying seizures, including its refined use within the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) as a differentiator between epileptic and psychogenic etiologies. CEEG also provides critical data that carry implications outside the bounds of both epilepsy and psychogenic events, such as the characterization of unorthodox clinical phenomena that are of physiological (though nonepileptic) origins. Although nonepileptic events (NEEs) are primarily linked with psychogenic phenomena (conversion disorder, malingering) that can mimic epileptic activity, they, like seizures, have diverse semiologies and etiologies.

Technical tips: event testing in the epilepsy monitoring unit.

Event testing plays an important role in the determination of event type. This is true for epileptic and/or nonepileptic events. Any individuals who spend a significant amount of time in a patient's room can contribute to this important part of an admission to the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU).

The visible lesbian: the Lesbian Community Action Association and lesbian visibility.

The Lesbian Community Action Association is a grassroots organization founded in a Midwestern university town in 1993 to counteract and thwart the efforts of the Amendment Coalition. These social and religious conservatives were collecting signatures in the hopes of placing on a state-wide ballot an initiative that would have made it illegal for cities, counties, and other governmental organizations to pass legislation protecting the rights of homosexuals in areas such as housing and employment. Once the crisis passed, the LCAA continued its existence as a service and social organization, as well as a political one.