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 ...

AIIMS Jodhpur has made a major breakthrough in medicine by managing to cure four patients with a rare and drug-resistant type of epilepsy called 'Laughter Epilepsy' or gelastic seizure. Reports ...

(LOS ANGELES) — For years, Justin Cho’s family thought they simply had a happy kid who liked to laugh, even when nothing funny happened. “Ever since he was an infant he would giggle and it would be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Epilepsy is characterized by unprovoked surges of electrical activity resulting in seizures that disrupt the normal connections ...

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 ...

For years Carter Caldwell had adamantly rejected doctors’ recommendations that he consider surgery to treat the frequent, uncontrolled seizures that were ravaging his brain. Caldwell, who had ...