Psychiatric classification of nonconversion XXXX .

@entity1 @entity410 @entity146 @entity71 @entity914 @entity148 @entity302 @entity13299
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency and type of non-conversion @entity410 ( @entity410 ). BACKGROUND: Although @entity13299 is the most common @entity146 among @entity1 with @entity410 , many @entity1 with nonepileptic paroxysmal behavioral events have other @entity146 , with natural histories and treatments different from those of @entity13299 . DESIGN: Retrospective review of a series of consecutive admissions for video-electroencephalography monitoring. All @entity1 identified with @entity410 were interviewed by a psychiatrist. @entity1 with conversion and other @entity146 were divided into separate groups. SETTING: A comprehensive @entity302 center. RESULTS: Twenty-one @entity1 evaluated for possible @entity302 had a @entity146 other than conversion that accounted for their events. Among these @entity1 , Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of @entity146 , Revised Third Edition (DSM-III-R) @entity148 (n = 9) were the most common diagnosed category, followed by all forms of @entity914 (n = 7) and impulse control problems in the setting of attention @entity71 residual type (n = 2). In contrast to 71 @entity1 with conversion @entity410 seen over the same period of time, the non-conversion group showed no female predominance and the nonconversion @entity1 were significantly less likely than the conversion @entity1 to have been physically or sexually abused in childhood or adolescence. CONCLUSIONS: These results support the validity of the nosologic distinction of nonconversion from conversion @entity410 and suggest that DSM-III-R @entity148 are an important diagnostic confound in clinical @entity302 .
