Changes in the heartbeat-evoked potential are associated with functional seizures

Changes in the heartbeat-evoked potential are associated with functional seizures
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2023 May 25:jnnp-2022-330167. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2022-330167. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Patients with functional seizures (FS) can experience dissociation (depersonalisation) before their seizures. Depersonalisation reflects disembodiment, which may be related to changes in interoceptive processing. The heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) is an electroencephalogram (EEG) marker of interoceptive processing.AIM: To assess whether alterations in interoceptive processing indexed by HEP occur ... read more
Source: PubMedPublished on 2023-05-25By Samia Elkommos