Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), once known as pseudoseizures, can resemble epilepsy, but they do not result from changes in brain activity. Learn more here.

Psychogenic: Mental disorders may translate into this type of chronic itch in the absence of an existing stimulus. Patients with somatization disorder or obsessive compulsive disorder may suffer ...

Psychologists have also used the terms psychogenic itching, psychogenic formication and psychogenic pruritus to describe itchy sensations with no physical cause, though these terms seem to come up in ...

Adolescents with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) experience severe bullying by fellow students and school staff alike, results of a small study suggest.\ The school experience of teens ...

Among people with psychogenic itch are those with so-called delusions of parasitosis, or a belief that bugs are infesting their skin despite a lack of evidence.

Dermatologic conditions remain the most obvious source of chronic itch, but consideration of neuropathic, systemic, and psychogenic causes may warrant consideration when the cause is less obvious.

Patients diagnosed with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures experienced a mortality rate 2.5 times higher than the general population (standardized mortality rate, 2.5; 95% CI, 2-3.3).

The importance of psychogenic mechanisms should never be overlooked in anal pruritus. Nearly every patient with an intractable anal itch presents a history of episodes causing tension.

One in four people who are tested for epilepsy do not have the disease but instead have a psychological condition called psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). At 21:00PM BST on 20.07.20/06 ...

Psychogenic: Mental disorders may translate into this type of chronic itch in the absence of an existing stimulus. Patients with somatization disorder or obsessive compulsive disorder may suffer ...