Anyone can experience inappropriate laughter, and it is not a medical diagnosis. However, certain neurological and mental health conditions may make inappropriate laughter harder to avoid.

They say laughter is the best medicine. But what if laughter is the disease? For a 6-year-old girl in Bolivia who suffered from uncontrollable and inappropriate bouts of giggles, laughter was a ...

Unusual or uncontrollable laughter can signal serious health issues, according to neurologist Dr. Sudhir Kumar. Conditions like gelastic seizures, laughter-induced syncope, pathological laughter, and ...

"Dying of laughter" is usually a figure of speech. But sometimes it's a coroner's report. Death from laughter is a rare but documented phenomenon, typically caused by cardiac arrest or asphyxiation ...