> Psychiatric symptoms may also resemble epilepsy, and in that case they are sometimes called psychogenic seizures or nonepileptic seizures. Conversion disorder (formerly called hysterical conversion disorder) can produce symptoms that look uncannily like generalized seizures but actually occur in connection with a need for attention or relief from stress that the patient is not aware of.
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> Psychiatric symptoms may also resemble epilepsy, and in that case they are sometimes called psychogenic seizures or nonepileptic seizures. Conversion disorder (formerly called hysterical conversion disorder) can produce symptoms that look uncannily like generalized seizures but actually occur in connection with a need for attention or relief from stress that the patient is not aware of.