- 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...
- See also laughter-induced syncope, cataplexy, and Bezold–Jarisch reflex.
Gelastic seizures can be due to
focal lesions to the hypothalamus.
Depending upon...
-
frequency of one in one
million individuals. The
classic presentation is
gelastic or
laughing epilepsy, a
disorder characterized by
spells of involuntary...
- growths, a
hypothalamic hamartoma is symptomatic; it most
often causes gelastic seizures, and can
cause visual problems,
other seizures, rage disorders...
- the body.
Rarer seizure types can
cause involuntary unnatural laughter (
gelastic),
crying (dyscrastic), or more
complex experiences such as déjà vu. About...
- as
sleep inversion,
sleepiness during the day and
wakefulness at night.
Gelastic cataplexy, the
sudden loss of
muscle tone when the
affected patient laughs...
- 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...
- and
various encephalitides.
Rarer conditions ****ociated with PBA
include gelastic epilepsy,
dacrystic epilepsy,
central pontine myelinolysis, olivopontinocerebellar...
-
Pathological laughter can also
occur in the
absence of
pseudobulbar palsy.
Gelastic (laughing)
seizures are
another neurological case of
inappropriate or excessive...
- tonic-clonic, atonic,
myoclonic seizures,
bilateral eyelid myoclonus,
gelastic seizures)
Atypical childhood epilepsy with
centrotemporal spikes Continuous...
