Psychiatric comorbid disorders and impulsivity in patients with drug-resistant temporal and extra-temporal focal epilepsies.

Purpose: To analyze patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy from temporal (TLE) and extra-temporal origin (ETE) and to compare the prevalence of psychiatric comorbid disorders and impulsivity between them and a control group.

Methods: Consecutively studied patients with TLE and ETE confirmed with Video-EEG were included. Standardized psychiatric assessment was conducted using the Structured Clinical Interview for Axis I and II diagnosis of DSM-IV (SCID I-II), the Barrat-11 scale for impulsivity, and Beck inventory for depression.

Cultural issues: Perspectives and experiences of patients with dissociative seizures in Argentina.

Purpose: To explore patients' subjective experience when receiving a diagnosis of Dissociative Seizures (DS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and their explanatory models about DS.

Method: A qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews was used to gain an in-depth and contextual understanding of the perspectives of 19 patients with DS. Data collection and analysis were followed by an inductive and interpretive approach informed by the principles of thematic analysis.

Cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Patient-weighted Quality of Life in Epilepsy 31 Inventory (QOLIE-31P) in Argentina.

Objective: This study presents the cultural and linguistic adaptation and psychometric properties of the Argentine version of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory (QOLIE-31P) scale.

Methods: An instrumental study was carried out. A version of QOLIE-31P translated into Spanish was provided by the original authors.

Perceived stress, resilience, and stress coping in patients with drug resistant epilepsy and functional dissociative seizures.

Purpose: Depression and anxiety are psychiatric disorders related to chronic stress, commonly found in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and functional dissociative seizures (FDS). The present study compares the levels of perceived stress, resilience, and the styles of stress coping among patients with DRE (n=60), FDS (n=28), and controls (n=31).

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study.

Using evidence-based psychotherapy to tailor treatment for patients with functional neurological disorders.

Functional neurological disorder (FND) frequently presents with comorbid psychopathology (e.g., anxiety, depressive, post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), somatic symptom and pain syndromes, and dissociative and personality disorders).

Comorbid impulsivity after one year of epilepsy surgery.

Background: Psychiatric comorbidities in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) are frequently observed before and after epilepsy surgery. Impulsivity, defined as behaviors that are poorly conceived, are also frequent among patients with epilepsy. The aim of this study was to determine the presence of comorbid impulsivity in patients with DRE after one year of epilepsy surgery.

Patients' Explanatory Models about drug-resistant epilepsy in Argentina. A thematic analysis.

Objective: The aim of this study is to explore explanatory models (EM) about epilepsy in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Design: A qualitative approach gathered data through semi-structured interviews, oriented to gain an in-depth and contextual understanding of EM about epilepsy of patients with DRE. Data collection and analysis were followed by an inductive and interpretive approach informed by the principles of thematic analysis.

Updated Review on the Diagnosis and Primary Management of Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizure Disorders.

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are paroxystic and episodic events associated with motor, sensory, mental or autonomic manifestations, which resemble epileptic seizures (ES), but are not caused by epileptogenic activity. PNES affect between 20% and 30% of patients attending at epilepsy centers and constitute a serious mental health problem. PNES are often underdiagnosed, undertreated and mistaken with epilepsy.

Differential Semiology Based on Video Electroencephalography Monitoring Between Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures and Temporal Lobe Epileptic Seizures.

Background: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs) are disruptive changes in behavior without ictal correlate of epileptic activity and high prevalence of psychiatric morbidity. Differential diagnosis is difficult particularly with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which is also associated with high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity. Although video electroencephalography is the gold standard for differential diagnosis, clinical semiology analysis may help the clinician in general medical practice.

Reducing Allostatic Load in Depression and Anxiety Disorders: Physical Activity and Yoga Practice as Add-On Therapies.

The allostatic load (AL) index constitutes a useful tool to objectively assess the biological aspects of chronic stress in clinical practice. AL index has been positively correlated with cumulative chronic stress (physical and psychosocial stressors) and with a high risk to develop pathological conditions (e.g.

Report on a psychoeducational intervention for psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in Argentina.

Purpose: To examine the effects of a three-session psychoeducational intervention on patients diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) in an Argentinian public hospital. It was hypothesized that patients would experience improvements in their understanding of PNES, illness perception and affective scores, but might not necessarily experience a significant change in post-traumatic and dissociative symptoms and in seizure frequency.

Methods: This study included 12 patients (10 women, 2 men) who were invited to participate in a psychoeducational group after receiving a V-EEG confirmed diagnosis of PNES.

Long-term outcome in a sample of underprivileged patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) living in Argentina.

Objective: The objective of the present study was to perform a long-term follow-up of economically disadvantaged Latin American patients diagnosed as having psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) and contribute to the field's understanding of outcome in this population.

Background: A handful of studies have examined outcome of patients once the diagnosis of PNES has been communicated. However, the vast majority of these have been conducted in the first world countries with samples that were predominantly Caucasian.

What patients think about psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in Buenos Aires, Argentina: A qualitative approach.

Purpose: To analyse the methods of reasoning with regard to patients' experiences of living with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Method: A qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews was used to gain an in-depth and contextual understanding of the perspectives of five patients with PNES. Data collection and analysis were followed by an inductive and interpretive approach informed by the principles of thematic analysis.

To what extent does depression influence quality of life of people with pharmacoresistant epilepsy in Argentina?

Introduction: Depression is the most frequent psychiatric co-morbidity in patients with epilepsy. Lifetime prevalence of depression is reported more frequently in temporal lobe epilepsy and is estimated at 35%. This co-morbidity appears to be related with various mechanisms.