Mirth, laughter and gelastic seizures

Brain

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 757-780

  Arroyo, Santiago ^a,b   Lesser, Ronald P ^a,b,c,d   Gordon, Barry ^a,b,c,d   Uematsu, Sumio ^a,b   Hart, John ^a,b,c   Schwerdt, Pamela ^b,c   Andreasson, Kati ^a   Fisher, Robert S ^a  

^a Department of Neurology ^*

^b Epilepsy Center Department of Neurology   (United States)

^c Div of Cogn Neurol/Neuropsychol   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; PARALYSIS; SEIZURES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0027242354     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/116.4.757     Document Type: Article

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