Nonepileptic Seizures After Resective Epilepsy Surgery

Abstract

The heterogeneous collection of behaviors subsumed under the label NESs are determined by multiple factors. Several variables were found to be specifically associated with the development of NES after resective epilepsy surgery: A disproportionate number of postsurgical NES patients are female, they have primary neurologic dysfunction in the right hemisphere, and their epileptic seizures often began after adolescence. We propose that at least one group of patients with somatoform tendencies develop NESs as part of the psychiatric instability that occurs often in the few months after resective surgery.