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Prompt: Science Summary

Experts from the University of Lincoln, University of Nottingham, and University of Sheffield in the UK, with Arizona State University in the USA, conducted research that revealed that psychogenic seizures were linked to feelings of anxiety (Wood, 161). Prior to this research, it was believed that psychogenic seizures were results from epilepsy (Wood, 165). In order to discover this link, clinical psychologists from the United States and the United Kingdom used computers and multiple questionnaires to discover whether or not an individual patient rejected situations and conversations that lead to feelings of anxiety (University of Lincoln).The test subjects composed of 30 adults with PNES, 25 with epilepsy, and a further 31 adults with no reported history of seizures who served as a nonclinical control group (University of Lincoln).The results ultimately showed that 83% of patients (University of Lincoln) showed matches for psychogenic non epileptic seizures, not epileptic seizures. This new found data is extremely important for seizures that have previously been mistaken as acts of epilepsy. Also, it is proof that data and the accuracy of studies is constantly changing. Hopefully this study will encourage other older studies to be revisited and revised.

References:

University of Lincoln. "Anxiety linked to seizures." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 August 2014. .

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. // Mastering the World of Psychology //. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.

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