Dacrystic seizures true HP:0010820 https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/gelastic-and-dacrystic-seizures UMLS:C4023693 2010-07-10T03:23:32Z peter Characterized by the presence of stereotyped crying, this may be accompanied by lacrimation, sad facial expression and sobbing. The subjective emotion of sadness may or may not be present. These seizures often accompany focal emotional seizures with laughing in the setting of a hypothalamic hamartoma. They can also occur in seizures arising in frontal or temporal lobes. Crying is a rare feature of an epileptic seizure, and is more commonly a feature of a non-epileptic seizure. human_phenotype The word dacrystic is derived from the Greek word dakryon (tear). A type of seizure characterized by crying or an outburst of crying as a major feature. Focal emotional seizure