A woman in her thirties has lived her entire life with uncontrollable laughing fits that defied all medical explanation. These strange episodes, occurring since her earliest childhood, were ...

Hyderabad, Dec 27 (IANS) A rare surgery was performed by a private Hyderabad hospital on a 3-year-old girl suffering from gelastic seizures, which used to make her have sudden bouts of laughter – for ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Uncontrollable and extended bouts of laughter as a symptom sound, well, a little funny. But to a Hawaii man who’d struggled with it for years, it was anything but.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Some say laughter is the best medicine. However, that is not the case when laughter is a symptom of an illness. Medical residents at the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns ...

When baby Jack laughed for hours a day, his parents just thought he was happy at first. But they later discovered a rare brain tumor was causing his unusual behavior. Jack Young, from the county of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Laughing seizures” have long been one of the mysteries surrounding epilepsy. During an event, an epileptic suffering a laughing seizure can guffaw, sometimes hysterically, but certainly not because ...

When Lucy Hoggan’s son Cadell laughs, the sound literally fills her with dread. Cadell, 3, has a rare form of gelastic epilepsy, which causes strange bouts of laughter – and could one day kill him, ...

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. — When she was having her seizures -- sometimes more than 30 times a day -- Anastasia Lagala’s face locked into a smiling grimace as her limbs flailed, and an eerie laugh came from ...