Fluoxetine improves emotional incontinence
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Brain Injury
- Vol. 6 (3) , 267-270
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02699059209029668
Abstract
Emotional incontinence is a behavioural syndrome characterized by involuntary weeping, grimacing, and/or laughter. We investigated the efficacy of fluoxetine in 13 patients with emotional incontinence. All 13 patients demonstrated dramatic improvement in emotional lability within 3 to 14 days.Keywords
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