Letter to the Editor April 15, 2006

Simultaneous True Seizures and Pseudoseizures

Chittaranjan Andrade, MD; Nagendra M. Singh, MBBS, MPhil; Savita G. Bhakta, DPM

J Clin Psychiatry 2006;67(4):673

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Sir: Pseudoseizures may often occur in patients with epilepsy.1 We describe a patient in whom true seizures and pseudoseizures always occurred together.

Case report: Ms. A, a 45-year-old woman, was referred with a 3- to 4-year history of pseudoseizures.’ ‹