In order to have a chance of dying from laughter-induced fainting, a second thing has to happen, Dr. Braunstein explains—you ...

Part of this increase may be due to syncope being defined differently in the latest report; patients with seizures, strokes, and transient ischemic attacks were included. Regardless, the burden of ...

Objective: To evaluate the proportion of patients referred to neurologists with presumed epilepsy and normal EEGs who have an alternative cause of syncope. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study ...

The physician has to decipher a syncope from a seizure, hypoglycaemia, cataplexy and psychiatric illness like anxiety panic disorders and somatisation disorders. The thumb rule of a loss of ...