Clinical characteristics and semiological pitfalls in patients with focal epilepsy and functional/dissociative seizures: A comparative analysis of correct and incorrect initial diagnoses.
OBJECTIVE Both epilepsy and functional/dissociative seizures (FDS) can present with a wide variety of event manifestations which can appear similar in nature and contribute to misdiagnosis. Whereas many studies have addressed the misdiagnosis of FDS as epilepsy, research into the inverse, where epilepsy is mistaken for...