'Pressure to laugh': An unusual epileptic symptom associated with small hypothalamic hamartomas

Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 971-973

  Sturm, Jonathan W ^a   Andermann, Frederick ^b   Berkovic, Samuel F ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0034700983     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.54.4.971     Document Type: Article

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