A woman in her thirties has lived her entire life with uncontrollable laughing fits that defied all medical explanation.
Since she was an infant, a 31-year-old woman had been experiencing bursts of uncontrollable laughter, but her condition had ...
She said that before each episode started, she would experience a "feeling of dread" in her neck and chest. During the ...
Justin Cho just seemed like a happy child. But after having a classic epileptic seizure, doctors realized the spontaneous laughs were due to gelastic epilepsy. A benign mass deep in the brain triggers ...
Justin Cho is recovering after having surgery to treat a rare form of epilepsy. — -- For years, Justin Cho's family thought they simply had a happy kid who liked to laugh, even when nothing funny ...
BACKGROUND: Gelastic seizures are epileptic events characterized by bouts of laughter. Laughter-like vocalization is usually combined with facial contraction in the form of a smile. Gelastic epilepsy ...