Cognitive behavioural therapy reduces the impact of dissociative seizures

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/nmbr-cbt051820.php

News Release 20-May-2020
NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre


Scientists have found that adding cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to standardised medical care gives patients with dissociative seizures longer periods of seizure freedom, less bothersome seizures and a greater quality of life, in a study published in Lancet Psychiatry today and by the Cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with dissociative seizures (CODES) study group funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

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