Escitalopram in disorder of laughter and crying with predominant laughter incontinence:

Debadatta Mohapatra; Biswa Ranjan Mishra; Rituparna Maiti; Sudipta Das

doi:10.1515/jbcpp-2016-0088

Published by De Gruyter December 17, 2016

Escitalopram in disorder of laughter and crying with predominant laughter incontinence

Debadatta Mohapatra , Biswa Ranjan Mishra , Rituparna Maiti and Sudipta Das

From the journal Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcpp-2016-0088

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Keywords: disorder of laughter and crying; escitalopram; laughter incontinence

Corresponding author: Biswa Ranjan Mishra, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar 751019, Odisha, India

Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2016-7-4

Accepted: 2016-9-11

Published Online: 2016-12-17

Published in Print: 2017-1-1

Escitalopram in disorder of laughter and crying with predominant laughter incontinence

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