In the case of dissociative seizures, textbooks will offer plenty of tabulated advice on how to differentiate epileptic from non-epileptic convulsions. I Winner of the i Brain I Essay Competition, 2022 i I As a third-year medical student, you are happy to have gotten a front row seat to this performance. Physicians are thus taught that a patient squeezing their eyes shut during an attack is sure to have a non-epileptic, dissociative seizure.