Non-Epileptic Seizures in Our Experience: Accounts of Healthcare Professionals

ISBN-13: 9780190927752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 376 str.

Markus Reuber; Gregg Rawlings; Steven C. Schachter

Recenzje

This second book in a series devoted to Non-Epileptic Seizures explores, as the first, a common set of disorders from an angle rarely approached. It gives us the experiences, doubts, puzzlements, reflections on positive and negative thoughts and revelations of insight offered by those dealing with patients at a clinical level, from different settings. Like all confessions, the individual narratives allow us to contemplate our own wanderings through the difficult challenges to our understanding and prejudices of what sometimes seem like insoluble problems. How to avoid the Cartesian cataract and slipping into a mind-body split is something all contributors have in common and have to disentangle. None of us is too experienced to learn from others, and there is much here to discover."

O autorze

Markus Reuber is a Neurologist whose clinical work and research focuses on seizure disorders. He is particularly interested in the differential diagnosis of epilepsy and the aetiology and treatment of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) and has published over 200 articles on these and other neurological topics. Apart from helping to develop a clinical service for his own patients, as Chair of the Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizure Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy, he has helped to advance the cause of individuals with PNES around the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy. Gregg H. Rawlings is currently a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at The University of Sheffield, UK. He has completed a BSc and MSc in Psychology, and more recently, a PhD in Clinical Neuroscience. His doctoral thesis involved exploring the subjective experience of living with epileptic or nonepileptic seizures. He was lead author of the first systematic review investigating healthcare professional's perceptions of PNES involving nearly 4000 professionals worldwide. Steven C. Schachter is Chief Academic Officer for the Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology (CIMIT) and a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is Past President of the American Epilepsy Society and serves on the Epilepsy Foundation of America Board of Directors. Dr. Schachter has published over 250 articles and chapters and edited or written 35 books. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the Clinical Editor for Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine and founding editor and editor-in-chief of the medical journals Epilepsy & Behavior and Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports.