Clinical trials: Psychogenic Seizures
Convulsion, Non-Epileptic, Conversion Disorder
Treatments for Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (NES)
The investigators propose that treatment of the comorbid disorders (depression, anxiety, and impulsivity) with sertraline in patients with lone psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (NES), will result in a decreased number of NES.
- Conditions
- Convulsion, Non-Epileptic, Conversion Disorder, Depression, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- Trial name
- NES (NCT00159965)
- Testing
- sertraline
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people
- Sponsor
- Rhode Island Hospital
Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures, Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Adherence of Patients With Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures
All subjects will attend an initial clinic visit with the neuropsychiatrist and epileptologist. At the end of this visit, those subjects randomized to motivational interviewing will be questioned using standardized motivational…
- Trial name
- NCT02598076
- Testing
- motivational interviewing, standard psychotherapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Conversion Disorder
Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Prognosis in Motor Functional Neurological Disorders
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND/ Conversion Disorder) is a highly prevalent and disabling neuropsychiatric condition. Motor FND symptoms include Nonepileptic Seizures, Functional Movement Disorders and Functional Weakness.
- Trial name
- NCT03398070
- Testing
- Standard of Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Nonepileptic Seizures
Treating Non-epileptic Seizures Using Magnetic Brain Stimulation
The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) - a form of non-invasive brain stimulation - to decrease the frequency of psychogenic non-epileptic seizure…
- Trial name
- NCT02796924
- Testing
- MagStim Rapid2 Transcranial Magnetic Simulation
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- University of Manitoba