RT Book, Section
A1 Brown, Lawrence W.
A2 Duchowny, Michael
A2 Cross, J. Helen
A2 Arzimanoglou, Alexis
SR Print(0)
ID 1138410509
T1 Episodic Events Mimicking Seizures in Childhood and Adolescence
T2 Pediatric Epilepsy
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071496216
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138410509
RD 2024/04/19
AB Epilepsy  has  often  been  described  as  the  great  imitator  with  protean  paroxysmal  manifestations  from  sudden  arousals  out  of  sleep,  to  confusional  states,  to  stiffening  only  when  the  individual  arises  and  turns  to  one  side  and  not  the  other.  However,  each  of  the  behaviors  listed  previously  (and  many,  many  others)  can  be  equally  well  explained  in  many  individuals  by  nonepileptic  mechanisms.  According  to  the  International  League  Against  Epilepsy,  imitators  of  epileptic  seizures  are  defined  not  by  the  presentation  but  by  the  absence  of  abnormal  and  excessive  neuronal  discharges.  The  International  League  Against  Epilepsy  (ILAE)  subdivides  nonepileptic  events  into  physiological  disturbances  with  a  nonepileptic  mechanism  such  as  syncope,  sleep  disorders,  paroxysmal  movements,  transient  global  amnesia,  and  migraine  as  well  as  nonepileptic  events  of  psychogenic  origin  (which  may  occur  in  the  same  patient  with  documented  epileptic  seizures).1