Functional Neurological Disorders Resources and Information
Our providers have compiled lists of resources below that they believe are most helpful for patients and families living with non-epileptic seizures. If you come across any helpful online, print, or community resources that are not already on this list, please reach out to the FND Clinic Program Manager with the information!
ONLINE RESOURCES
- https://fndhope.org/
- nonepilepticseizures.com
- https://www.neurosymptoms.org/
- http://www.nonepilepticattackdisorder.org.uk/
- Non-Epileptic Seizures Webinar: An Introduction for patients and loved ones. Dr. Lorna Myers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYuDv-QFYu0
- https://www.aafp.org/afp/2005/0901/p849.html
- https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1184694-overview
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrjAQ7hLiP4jgCmFHFuFXFw
- https://www.barrowneuro.org/education/grand-rounds-publications-and-media/barrow-quarterly/volume-15-no-1-1999/nonepileptic-seizures-neuropsychological-mechanisms/
Print Resources and FND Workbooks
1. Overcoming functional neurological symptoms: a five areas approach
Author: Professor Christopher Williams
2. Taking Control of Your Seizures Workbook
Author: Joel M. Reiter
https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Control-Your-Seizures-Treatments/dp/019933501X
3. Gates and Rowan’s Nonepileptic Seizures
Authors: Steven C. Schachter and W. Curt LaFrance Jr.
https://www.amazon.com/Nonepileptic-Seizures-Cambridge-Medicine-Hardcover/dp/052151763X
4. Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: A Guide
Author: Lorna Myers, PhD
5. In Our Words: Personal Accounts of Living with Non-Epileptic Seizures
Author: Markus Reuber
6. View From The Floor: Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: A Patient’s Perspective
Author: Kate Berger and Lorna Myers (Foreward)
https://www.amazon.com/View-Floor-Psychogenic-Non-Epileptic-Perspective-ebook/dp/B0161NE9AQ
7. Lowering the Shield – Overcoming Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures
Author: John Dougherty
https://www.amazon.com/Lowering-Shield-Psychogenic-Nonepileptic-ebook/dp/B00BTMB38G#_
8. Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It
Author: Kenneth Higbee, PhD
9. The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
Author: Harry Lorayne
10. Treating Memory Impairments: A Memory Book and Other Strategies
Author: Vicki S. Dohrmann
Research and Scientific Literature
1. The feasibility of a multidisciplinary group therapy clinic for the treatment of nonepileptic seizures
Authors: Randi Libbon, et al.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525505019303221?dgcid=coauthor
2. Nonepileptic Seizures: An Updated Review
Authors: David Perez and W. Curt LaFrance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438261/
3. Is drug treatment of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures effective?
Authors: Massimiliano Beghi, W. Curt LaFrance, et al.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525505019305608?via%3Dihub
4. Psychological trauma in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Trauma characteristics and those who develop PTSD
Authors: Lorna Myers, et al
5. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (PNES) as a Network Disorder – Evidence From Neuroimaging of Functional (Psychogenic) Neurological Disorders
Authors: Jerzy Szaflarski and W. Curt LaFrance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145391/
6. Neuroimaging studies in patient with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: A systematic meta-review
Authors: Marco Mcsweeney, et al.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5544493/
7. Management of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures
Authors: W. Curt LaFrance, et al.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/epi.12106
8. An integrative neurocircuit perspective on psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and functional movement disorders: neural functional unawareness
Authors: D. L. Perez, et al.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25432161
9. What patients say about living with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A systematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Authors: Gregg H. Rawling & Markus Reuber
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1059131116301169?via%3Dihub
10. Understanding psychogenic nonepileptic seizures – Phenomenology, semiology and the Integrative Cognitive Model
Authors: Markus Reuber & Richard J. Brown
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1059131116302229
Community Resources
Epilepsy Foundation
https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/nonepileptic-seizures-or-events
Help Guide – Trusted mental health and wellness
National Center for PTSD
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
The Center for Trauma and Resilience
UCCS Veterans Health and Trauma Clinic
https://www.uccs.edu/healthcircle/veterans-health-and-trauma-clinic
National Alliance for Mental Illness
https://www.nami.org/find-support/nami-programs/nami-connection
Colorado Crisis Center