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In future studies, he hopes to figure why gelastic seizures don’t produce some other effect.

The most common types of seizures that occur are known as gelastic epilepsy.

They can cause several different types of seizures including a Gelastic Seizure.

Gelastic cataplexy, the sudden loss of muscle tone when the patient laughs, is also seen.

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But exactly where in the hypothalamus are gelastic seizure-related hamartomas located?

Gelastic seizures are not responsive to therapy.

"And when you type in 'laughing episode,' anything to do with unexplained laughter, gelastic seizures came up.

A gelastic seizure is typically caused by a hypothalamic hamartoma, or a brain tumor.

These gelastic seizures involved a sudden burst of energy, usually in the form of laughing or crying and can be uncomfortable.

"The cells are like a little pacemaker that fires abnormal signals and cause a rare kind of gelastic seizure," he said.

Children with gelastic epilepsy can suffer more than 200 acute seizures a day; leaving them so exhausted they pass out and/or stop breathing.

Like many other types of seizures, gelastic seizures are hard to control for an extended period of time.

The main sign of a gelastic seizure is a sudden outburst of laughter or crying with no apparent cause.

Gelastic seizures have been observed after taking a birth control pill (Maxim (R)).

He was having a huge amount of fits known as gelastic seizures, characterized by laughing, and they were caused by a brain tumor.

And between Lawrence and the gelastic (ie those who never do anything else) a no less remorseless battle continues to be fought.

They are called gelastic seizures, and appear as spontaneous, uncontrollable and often maniacal giggles or laughter.

Paroxysms of laughter have no relation to the EEG, ruling out this feature as a gelastic phenomenon.

More recent epidemiologic studies have found these associations to be less consistent, with gelastic epilepsy predominant in the majority of patients regardless of morphology.

And when you typed in 'gelastic seizures,' benign brain tumor came up, and that's when the magnitude of it really hit us," Williams said.

Earlier research traced these events, more formally called gelastic seizures, to abnormal clumps of neurons in the hypothalamus called hamartomas.

The classic presentation is gelastic or laughing epilepsy, a disorder characterized by spells of involuntary laughter with interval irritability and depressed mood.

Gelastic epilepsy has been more classically associated with sessile lesions and precocious puberty reported with pedunculated morphology.

Currently, there has been more research regarding dysprosody's link to other diseases, in particular Parkinson's disease, but also Huntington's disease, and gelastic epilepsy to name a few.