Share of Cost, Epilepsy Type Signs Linked To Stress
Tuesday, Dec. 25th 2012 4:12 PM
A study, published online in the journal Seizure, reveals that over 33% of patients believed to have intractable seizures were actually presenting stress-triggered symptoms. A team of Johns Hopkins physicians and psychologists found that more than one-third of patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit had symptoms caused by stress, rather than a true seizure disorder.
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