[Crying epilepsy]

Crying epilepsy, consisting of the appearance of tears as an epileptic phenomenon, is apparently somewhat infrequent. In most cases which it has been possible to record, electroencephalography (EEG) indicated a right temporal focus. These findings have lent weight to the theory of the existence of hemispheric emotion control. We present two cases in which tears were one of the clinical signs of epilepsy. In one of the cases EEG showed left temporal focus.