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. 2018 Jul-Aug;18(4):211-216.
doi: 10.5698/1535-7597.18.4.211.

Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (PNES) as a Network Disorder - Evidence From Neuroimaging of Functional (Psychogenic) Neurological Disorders

Jerzy P Szaflarski  1 , W Curt LaFrance Jr  2
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Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (PNES) as a Network Disorder - Evidence From Neuroimaging of Functional (Psychogenic) Neurological Disorders

Jerzy P Szaflarski et al. Epilepsy Curr. 2018 Jul-Aug.
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FIGURE.
Schematics of possible nodes of the network underlying development and maintenance of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) derived from structural neuroimaging studies of patients with PNES and other functional neurological disorders/conversion disorders (FND/CDs) and possible connections between those nodes derived from functional and structural connectivity studies. Colors indicate from which studies the connections were derived: BLUE = resting state connectivity; BLACK = structural findings/structural connectivity (dashed line around vAI is derived from the meta-analysis of some of the neuroimaging studies of PNES; 6); ORANGE = task-related functional connectivity; DASHED BLUE = connectivity noted in other FNDs/CDs, in addition to the connectivity in PNES; DASHED ORANGE = task-related functional connectivity (various tasks).
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