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In this retrospective study, we reviewed medical records for patients admitted for treatment of PNES at the Danish Epilepsy Centre from 2018 to 2023. We compared psychometric scores before and after admission as outcome measures.\n\nRESULTS. Our cohort consisted of 86.6% women with a mean age of 34.1 years at admission. 29.1% lived alone, and only 39.6% were employed or under education. The patients had a long history of PNES (mean 68.6 months), and a large proportion had comorbid epilepsy (34.1%) or psychiatric comorbidity (67.2%). We found significant improvement in all psychometric scores after admission. Comorbid epilepsy had no significant impact on this effect.\n\nCONCLUSIONS. Danish patients receiving inpatient treatment for PNES are very similar to other published cohorts. Four weeks of psychotherapy significantly improved all psychometric scores for patients both with and without epilepsy.\n\nFUNDING. 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