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Ictal Crying, Ali Akbar Asadi-Pooya, Dale Wyeth, Michael R. Sperling
Ictal Crying, Ali Akbar Asadi-Pooya, Dale Wyeth, Michael R. Sperling
Department of Neurology Faculty Papers
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe a series of patients with ictal crying to estimate its occurrence and characterize the clinical features and the underlying etiology.
METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed all the long-term video-EEG reports from Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center over a 12-year period (2004-2015) for the occurrence of the terms "cry" or "sob" or "weep" in the text body. All the extracted reports were reviewed, and patients with at least one episode of documented ictal crying at the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) were included in the study.
RESULTS: During the study period, 5133 patients were investigated …