Effects of a psychotherapeutic group intervention in patients with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and comorbid psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A nonrandomized controlled study
Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy Mar 31, 2018
de Barros ACS, et al. - The effects of a group psychotherapeutic intervention program based were comprehensively analyzed by the authors on the cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in the case of individuals dually diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy/mesial temporal sclerosis (TLE-MTS) and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) treated in a tertiary center. The following positive impacts were noted after the intervention: Improvements in quality of life, decreased depression and anxiety symptoms, decreased levels of alexithymia and a reduction in seizure frequency in patients with TLE-MTS and PNES. This, in turn, underscored the therapeutic possibility of the psychotherapeutic intervention program for this specific subgroup.
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