Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures Toward the Integration of Care

Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors List
Section I: Clinical Setting
Chapter 1: Ambulatory Presentations in Adults and Children
Mary Angela O'Neal, MD and Rochelle Caplan, MD
Chapter 2: Emergency Department and Urgent Care Presentations
Daniel Weisholtz, MD and Barbara A. Dworetzky, MD
Section II: Etiologic Factors
Chapter 3: Psychiatric Factors
Kim Bullock, MD and John Barry, MD
Chapter 4: Neurologic and Medical Factors
Victoria S. S. Wong, MD and Martin Salinsky, MD
Chapter 5: Mechanisms of Possible Neurocognitive Dysfunction
Daniel L. Drane, PhD and Dona E. C. Locke, PhD
Chapter 6: The Neurobiology of PNES and Other Functional Neurological Symptoms
David L. Perez, MD and Valerie Voon MD, PhD
Section III: Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 7: Diagnostic Challenges for the Neurologist
Jigar Rathod, MD and Selim R. Benbadis, MD
Chapter 8: Diagnostic Challenges for the Mental Health Team and Psychiatrist
Lorna Myers, PhD and John Barry, MD
Chapter 9: Practical and Diagnostic Challenges for the Neuropsychologist
Kim Willment, PhD and David Loring, PhD
Section IV: Principles of Treatment
Chapter 10: Communicating the Diagnosis
Markus Reuber, MD, PhD
Chapter 11: Clinicians' Response to the Diagnosis
Sigita Pliopys, MD, Shan Abbas, MD, and Brien Smith, MD
Chapter 12: Models of Care
Tyson Sawchuk MSc, RPsych, Joan K Austin, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Debbie Terry, MS, CNP
Chapter 13: Readiness to Start Treatment and Obstacles to Adherence
Benjamin Tolchin, MD and Gaston Baslet, MD
Section V: Treatment Interventions
Chapter 14: Evidence-Based Treatments
W. Curt LaFrance Jr., MD, MPH and Laura H. Goldstein, PhD, MPhil
Chapter 15: The Role of the Neurologist after Diagnosis
Adriana Bermeo-Ovalle, MD and Andres M. Kanner, MD, FANA
Chapter 16: The Roles of the Patient and Family
Julia L. Doss, PsyD, LP and Jeffrey Mark Robbins, MSW
Section VI: Long-Term Outcomes and Prognosis
Chapter 17: Long-Term Outcomes
Roderick Duncan, MD, PhD
Chapter 18: An Integrated Approach to other Functional Neurological Symptoms and Related Disorders
Jon Stone, MB, ChB, FRCP, PhD and Alan Carson, MD
Chapter 19: Towards the Integration of Care
Gaston Baslet, MD and Barbara A. Dworetzky, MD