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Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (NES), or pseudoseizures, present a major diagnostic problem for neurologists, emergency physicians, psychiatrists, and other clinicians. Between 10 percent and 40 percent of patients with medically refractory seizures have NES rather than, or in addition to, epileptic seizures. Previous studies have documented isolated clinical phenomena suggestive of NES, including gradual onset and prolonged duration of events, closed eyes during convulsions, and ictal weeping. These authors postulated that NES would be easier to distinguish from epileptic seizures on the basis of overall appearance and the presence of symptom clusters. They used cluster analysis to analyze symptoms in 27 patients with NES
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