Editing Talk:Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (section)

===Pseudoseizures===
Whilst I agree the term pseudoseizures is unsatisfactory, we have perhaps yet to find the ideal term. See {{PMID|14630495}} for a study from the patient's point of view. The following statistics are also interesting:

* '''non-epileptic attack disorder'''  - 19 PubMed Articles, 281 Google results
* '''psychogenic non-epileptic seizures''' - 25 PubMed Articles, 477 Google results
* '''non-epileptic seizures''' - 92 PubMed Articles, 16,300 Google results, this recent book on Amazon: {{ISBN|0750670266}}
* '''pseudoseizures''' - 233 PubMed Articles, 25,100 Google results, this recent book on Amazon: {{ISBN|1904424279}}

The term pseudoseizures still appears in recent articles and books - it is not going away quickly --[[User:Colin|Colin]] 17:58, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, it redirects here (to PNES) in both singular and plural forms, and it's bolded in the introduction.  It's deprecated for good reasons - it's stigmatizing and strictly inaccurate.  I would say that it is going away about as quickly as the term 'epileptic idiot' went away in terms of describing the developmentally delayed  person with epilepsy, which is to say, no conceivable speed could be fast enough.  -[[User:Ikkyu2|<span style="color:#2000C0;">ikkyu2</span>]] ([[User_talk:Ikkyu2|<span style="color:#00FF00;">talk</span>]]) 21:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
:This isn't just my own personal POV, by the way; although it happens to be, it is also clearly explained, in exactly the way it's explained here in the linked article from the Epilepsy Foundation on PNES.  -[[User:Ikkyu2|<span style="color:#2000C0;">ikkyu2</span>]] ([[User_talk:Ikkyu2|<span style="color:#00FF00;">talk</span>]]) 02:00, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I often find it a shame that valid scientific names are deprecated because they may "connote" something in the uneducated eye of the beholder. There are many medical and scientific terms in pseudo- and people should be educated to understand what it means. [[User:Dadge|Dadge]] ([[User talk:Dadge|talk]]) 11:07, 14 August 2015 (UTC)