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Epilepsy 2011 Section Four: Differential diagnosis
Chapter 17: Non-epileptic paroxysmal neurological and cardiac events: the differential diagnosis of epilepsy
F.J. Rugg-Gunn
In this chapter:
- Syncope
- Drop attacks
- Convulsive movements and transient focal hypermotor episodes
- Transient focal sensory attacks
- Psychic experiences
- Aggressive or vocal outbursts
- Prolonged confusional or fugue states
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Chapter 18: Epilepsy and sleep
M.C. Walker and S.M. Sisodiya
In this chapter:
- Normal sleep physiology and the relationship to seizures
- The interaction of sleep disorders and epilepsy
- The importance of sleep disorders in differential diagnosis
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Chapter 19: The diagnosis and management of dissociative seizures
J.D.C. Mellers
In this chapter:
- Definitions and terminology
- Psychiatric disorders that may be mistaken for epilepsy
- Factitious disorder and dissociative seizures: the concept of unconscious symptom generation
- Clinical features of dissociative seizures
- Investigations
- Psychiatric formulation: an aetiological model of DS
- Management
- Treatment
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