Seizures: verbal presentations

Evidence-based neurology checklist on seizures: verbal presentations: Verbal and language manifestations Crying: dacrystic Laughing: gelastic Singing Humming Swearing Whistling Hushing Verbal help-seeking Barking Aphasia Dysphasia Coprolalia (foul speech) Jargon speech Agraphia Paraphasia…

Verbal and language manifestations

  • Crying: dacrystic
  • Laughing: gelastic
  • Singing
  • Humming
  • Swearing
  • Whistling
  • Hushing
  • Verbal help-seeking
  • Barking
  • Aphasia
  • Dysphasia
  • Coprolalia (foul speech)
  • Jargon speech
  • Agraphia
  • Paraphasia
  • Non-speech vocalisation

Ictal religious speech

References

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  4. Blumberg J, Fernández IS, Vendrame M, et al. Dacrystic seizures: demographic, semiologic, and etiologic insights from a multicenter study in long-term video-EEG monitoring units. Epilepsia 2012; 53:1810-1819.
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