clinical features

Last reviewed 01/2018

Symptoms:

  • deja vu
  • memories flooding into consciousness
  • amnesia during attack
  • olfactory or gustatory hallucinations
  • sensations rising up the body

Signs:

  • cut off from the outside world during an attack - feeling detached from surroundings
  • slow and confused
  • repetitive vocalisations
  • automatisms (repetitive movements)
  • lip-smacking
  • sniffing