Treating Nonepileptic Seizures

W. Curt LaFrance Jr., MD, MPH, is Director of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology at Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Alpert Medical School, Brown University. He is the neuropsychiatrist for the RIH Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and a faculty member of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. He studied at Wake Forest University (BA in psychology), Medical College of Georgia (MD), and Brown University (MPH). He trained in Brown's combined residency in neurology and psychiatry and is double boarded. His research is in neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy, somatoform disorders, and Traumatic Brain Injury. He is co-editor of Gates and Rowan's Nonepileptic Seizures. Jeffrey Peter Wincze, PhD, is a staff psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Boston University and he worked and completed post-doctoral training at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. He has been involved in federally funded research grants investigating the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders. He has published articles in the areas of anxiety disorders, compulsive hoarding, and biofeedback. His current research is focused on management of depression and treatment of conversion disorders.