Do you know what Gelastic seizures means?

verogakio

Gelastic seizures is the term used to describe focal or partial seizures with bouts of uncontrolled laughing or giggling. They are often called laughing seizures. The person may look like they are smiling or smirking. Dacrystic seizures are focal or partial seizures when a person makes a crying sound.

BKiwu

What is it cause?

MikkiTarz

https://community.enableme.org/en/discussion/comment/282659#Comment_282659

Gelastic seizures usually start in the first year of a child's life and can sound like laughter. In this syndrome, people have gelastic seizures caused by a small benign (non-cancerous) tumour in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus. This type of tumour is called a hypothalamic hamartoma.

MikkiTarz

https://community.enableme.org/en/discussion/comment/282674#Comment_282674

For more information you can check out

https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/syndromes/gelastic-seizures-with-hypothalamic-hamartoma#:~:text=Gelastic%20epilepsy,is%20called%20a%20hypothalamic%20hamartoma.

Wilie

This is quite good info, thanks for the update

verogakio

https://community.enableme.org/en/discussion/comment/282675#Comment_282675

Thanks for this.