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Spitting as an ictal event Volume 3, issue 1, Mars 2001

Authors
University of Istanbul, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Pharmacology and Instanbul Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Page(s) : 49
  • Published in: 2001

A well documented case of ictal spitting originating from the left language dominant temporal lobe was recently reported by Kahane et al. [1] in a letter to the Editor commenting on our paper on the subject [2]. We would like to counter some of the arguments emphasized by the authors: i) not everyone agrees that all automatic behavior during a seizure should be called automatisms or whether this term should be reserved for stereotyped behaviors [...]