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 ...

Rare form of epilepsy causes gelastic seizures that appear as giggles. May 16, 2012 — -- It is the most treasured and joyous sound for nearly every parent: their child's laughter. But for a rare ...

Do you know somebody who laughs uncontrollably, frequently and without a reason? It could be sign of this health issue. There is always a root cause behind such uncontrollable laughter episodes and ...

“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 ...

When Lucy Hoggan’s son Cadell laughs, the sound literally fills her with dread. Cadell, 3, has a rare form of gelastic epilepsy, which causes strange bouts of laughter – and could one day kill him, ...

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