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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 113-115 |
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A rare co occurrence of Cervical Dystonia and Pathological Laughter in an elderly female
Vishnupriya Veeraraghavan1, Krishnan Srinivasan2, John Dinesh Alexander1
1 Department of Psychiatry, Aarupadaiveedu Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India
2 Department of Physiology, Mahathma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Vishnupriya Veeraraghavan
Department of Psychiatry, Aarupadaiveedu Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jgmh.jgmh_30_20
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Dystonia is a movement disorder whose main feature is a sustained or intermittent muscle contraction causing abnormal, often repetitive, movements. Cervical dystonia (CD) is a type of focal dystonia affecting cervical muscles leading to abnormal postures and movements of the head, neck, and shoulders. Pathological laughter and crying are a condition characterized by uncontrollable episodes of laughter and crying. It occurs without any apparent triggering stimulus or in response to a stimulus which had not resulted in cry or laughter before the onset of the condition. It is characterized as a disorder of emotional expression rather than a disorder of feelings. The purpose of presenting this case report is that this patient presented with pathological laughter and CD without any other neurological complications which are a very rare and unusual presentation.
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