%0 Journal Article %T Crisis psic¨®gena, una patolog¨ªa psiqui¨¢trica de enlace. A prop¨®sito de un caso A case of Psychogenous Crisis, a Linking Psychiatric Pathology %A Esther Perea C %A Mart¨ªn Torres Z %A Mart¨ªn Su¨¢rez J %J Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatr¨ªa %D 2012 %I Asociacion Colombiana de Psiquiatria %X Las crisis psic¨®genas, descritas por Charcot, constituyen una entidad que puede ser dif¨ªcil de diferenciar de las crisis epil¨¦pticas. El 70% de estos pacientes tienen un diagn¨®stico psiqui¨¢trico subyacente. Describimos el caso de una paciente que fue diagnosticada con crisis epil¨¦pticas durante varios a os, polimedicada, incluida en el protocolo de cirug¨ªa de epilepsia para pacientes refractarios. Durante su evaluaci¨®n, se descubri¨® un origen psic¨®geno de estas. Analizamos las caracter¨ªsticas cl¨ªnicas y paracl¨ªnicas que nos permiten aproximarnos al diagn¨®stico diferencial entre ambas entidades. Psychogenous seizures described by Charcot, are an entity that can be difficult to distinguish from epileptic seizures. 70% of these patients have an underlying psychiatric diagnosis. We describe the case of a female patient who was diagnosed with seizures for several years, poly-medicated, and included in the epilepsy surgery protocol for refractory patients. During the evaluation, a psychogenous origin was discovered for such crises. We analyzed the clinical criteria and laboratory tests that allow us to approach the differential diagnosis between both entities. %K Crisis psic¨®gena %K crisis epil¨¦pticas %K eventos parox¨ªsticos no epil¨¦pticos %K videotelemetr¨ªa %K histeria %K trastorno somatomorfo %K Psychogenic crisis %K epileptic crisis %K paroxystic non-epyleptic events %K videoltelemetry %K hysteria %K mal events %K somatomorphous disorder %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-74502012000300017