Fictitious Epilepsy associated with Amnesia

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Abstract
Epilepsy can occur in patients without any changes apparent in the electroencephalogram. Thus the diagnosis of epilepsy is essentially made on clinical grounds. The clinical features of epilepsy are rela tively easy to learn to mimic. Feigned epilepsy can occur in adulthood or it may occur in childhood, as part of a Munchausen syndrome by proxy as described by Meadows (1984). We would like to describe a case of feigned epilepsy with global amnesia, and several other symptoms of aberrant illness behaviour.

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