A gelastic seizure, also known as "gelastic epilepsy", is a rare type of seizure that involves a sudden burst of energy, usually in the form of laughing...

occur in seizures affecting association areas. Gelastic seizures, characterized by inappropriate or involuntary laughter, and dacrystic seizures, involving...

laughter (gelastic seizures), and mystic experiences. Such features often reflect activation of specific brain regions; for instance, ecstatic seizures are...

Laughter can cause atonia and collapse ("gelastic syncope"), which in turn can cause trauma . Gelastic seizures can be due to focal lesions to the hypothalamus...

tumor can be associated with other seizure types as well as precocious puberty and behavioral disorders. Gelastic epilepsy has been more classically associated...

hamartoma is symptomatic; it most often causes gelastic seizures, and can cause visual problems, other seizures, rage disorders associated with hypothalamic...

animals, specifically dogs. Sleepwalk with Me Pseudobulbar affect Gelastic seizure St Louis EK, Boeve AR, Boeve BF (May 2017). "REM Sleep Behavior Disorder...

including Parkinson's condition, Huntington's condition, gelastic epilepsy (gelastic seizure), and behavioral disorders such as apathy, akinesia and aboulia...

The most common type of seizure from this disorder of that occur is known as gelastic epilepsy or "laughing" seizures. Seizures may begin at any age but...

Brodmann area L., Nicolae; G., Lacob; O., Popescu B. (2010-11-25). "Gelastic Seizures in a Patient with Right Gyrus Cinguli Astrocytoma". Journal of Medicine...

person they know has epilepsy, even if the seizures are controlled by medication. If the employee has a seizure while at work, they could harm themselves...

of laughter have no relation to the EEG, ruling out this feature as a gelastic phenomenon. EEG anomalies may be used as a quantitative biomarkers to "chart...

developmental delay and intellectual disability, as well as epileptic seizures. Other clinical features vary depending on the affected gene and may include...

diagnosed as misbehavior or demonic possession, but were found to be Gelastic seizures caused by a brain tumor. ecancermedicalscience is indexed in the following...

syndrome, the symptoms of which (including a rare pituitary tumour and gelastic seizures) he has experienced for his entire life. His father, Zbigniew "Alan"...

laughter can also occur in the absence of pseudobulbar palsy. Gelastic (laughing) seizures are another neurological case of inappropriate or excessive laughter...

and various encephalitides. Rarer conditions associated with PBA include gelastic epilepsy, dacrystic epilepsy, central pontine myelinolysis, olivopontinocerebellar...

as sleep inversion, sleepiness during the day and wakefulness at night. Gelastic cataplexy, the sudden loss of muscle tone when the affected patient laughs...

remove hypothalamic hamartomas from the brain. This type of tumour causes gelastic epilepsy, and they are located in a very inaccessible area inside the brain...