Pathological laughter in a patient with trigeminal neurinoma

We present a 47-year-old woman with a long history of anxiety and a more recent history of shock-like facial pain and episodes of laughter without any motivation. She could not explain the laughing bursts and did not have a sense of mirth preceding it. On neurological examination she presented a VI...

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Main Authors: André G. Machado, Paulo Henrique Aguiar, Raul Marino Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2002-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2002000600021&tlng=en
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