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Tongue biting in pseudoseizures and epilepsy
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We enjoyed Fuller and Lindahl’s article about clinical clues for distinguishing epilepsy from non-epileptic attacks.1 Their comments about the location of tongue biting in non-epileptic attacks (rarely the side, sometimes the tip) may well be correct, but we thought they deserved some additional comment, partly because their analysis omitted a number of relevant studies (see table).2–12 We have combined the mainly small series in the table, admittedly inviting a …
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