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. 1991 Dec;54(12):1114–1116. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.54.12.1114

Variations on a theme—singing as an epileptic automatism

H Meierkord 1, S Shorvon 1
PMCID: PMC1014693  PMID: 1783929

Abstract

A case report giving the clinical and EEG details of a patient with right temporal lobe epilepsy in whom singing was the predominant feature of the automatism.

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