A recent study showed a high rate of misdiagnosis of dementia when using brief cognitive screening tools. Incredibly, 35.7% of patients were incorrectly classified by at least one of the three screening procedures that were examined. The researchers looked at the well known Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Memory Impairment Screen (MIS) and animal naming…
Dissociative Seizures We have been seeing an increasing number of patients with dissociative seizures at Ormond Neuroscience. Alternatively, perhaps I am more aware of dissociative seizures, so I notice it more easily. Curious about the epidemiology, I investigated. Amazing figures when one investigates the epidemiology. Refractory epilepsy is epilepsy that is resistant to drug treatment.…
