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<span class="epilepsyhead">Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures </span> <p>Psychogenic seizures are often called non-epileptic seizures though the symptoms may lead patients and health care providers to believe they are a sign of epilepsy. However, epileptic seizures are caused by sudden abnormal electrical discharges in the brain. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are attacks that may look like epileptic seizures, but are not caused by abnormal brain electrical discharges. They are stress or emotionally related. </p><p>Psychogenic seizures are most often misdiagnosed as epilepsy. These seizures are not rare – in fact, one in five patients sent to an epilepsy specialist for difficult seizures is found to have psychogenic seizures.</p>
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