Twenty to thirty per cent of patients treated with antiepileptics do not suffer from epilepsy but from seizures which resemble epilepsy.Non-epileptic seizures can be divided according to their etiology into somatically and psychogenically conditioned ones.In their differentiation from true epileptic seizures an important part is played by video/EEG monitoring.The authors analyze a group of 38 children aged 1 –18 years,who were indicated for video/EEG monitoring because of suspected epilepsy or non-epileptic seizures.In 14 cases they diagnosed a psychogenic converse or panic reaction,in 10 instances parasom- nia,in 6 cases tics and in the remaining 8 patients an abnormal stereotypy or other non-epileptic involuntary movements were involved.The objective of the work was to draw attention to the variety of non-epileptic seizures in the child population.

        Key words: non-epileptic seizures,childhood,video/EEG monitoring