NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There are few things parents love to hear more than the sound of their children laughing. However, in some cases it can be the sign of a serious medical problem. As CBS2's Dr.

A rare condition may help researchers understand the origins of laugher in the brain, a new study says. The study involved patients with gelastic epilepsy, an uncommon condition characterized by ...

In a sunlit school classroom, a child bursts into laughter, sudden, eerie, and entirely unprovoked. There’s no joke, no punchline, no mischief. What seems like quirky behaviour draws giggles from ...

Docs delve into condition where person gets fits right after an abnormal episode of laughter For this 10-year-old, a sudden bout of laughter is an indication of grim tidings. An epileptic seizure ...

A 30-year-old female, battling gelastic seizures since childhood, experienced a significant reduction in seizure frequency after undergoing CyberKnife treatment. This non-invasive radiosurgery ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Hyderabad Doctors successfully performed a rare surgery on a 3-year-old girl suffering from gelastic seizures. Gelastic seizures are usually present in childhood, even in the newborn period, and are ...

A new surgery is offering hope to children suffering from a rare form of epilepsy that causes uncontrollable and potentially fatal fits of laughter. Doctors at Texas Children's Hospital for the first ...

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