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Gelastic Epilepsy

Known as: Epilepsy, gelastic, Gelastic Epilepsies, Gelastic seizures 
A type of seizure characterized by laughing or an outburst of laughing as a major feature. [HPO:probinson]
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Digestive Epilepsy

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Epilepsies, PartialEpileptic automatism

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Review
2011
Review
2011
Gelastic epilepsy and hypothalamic hamartomas: neuroanatomical analysis of brain lesions in 100 patients.
Hypothalamic hamartomas present with isolated fits of ictal laughter (gelastic epilepsy) or a combination of gelastic and other… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Endoscopic surgery for hypothalamic hamartomas causing medically refractory gelastic epilepsy
IntroductionThere is increasing evidence that removal or disconnection of hypothalamic hamartomas can lead to seizure control and… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Hypothalamic Hamartoma and Seizures: A Treatable Epileptic Encephalopathy
Summary:  Hypothalamic hamartomas may be associated with gelastic seizures, focal seizures, and a generalized epileptic… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Transcallosal Resection of Hypothalamic Hamartomas, with Control of Seizures, in Children with Gelastic Epilepsy
OBJECTIVE Hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) are associated with precocious puberty and gelastic epilepsy; the seizures are often… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Gelastic Epilepsy: Symptomatic and Cryptogenic Cases
Summary: Purpose: To describe the etiology, characteristics, and clinical evolution of epilepsy in patients with gelastic… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Intrinsic epileptogenesis of hypothalamic hamartomas in gelastic epilepsy
Hypothalamic hamartomas and gelastic seizures are often associated with cognitive deterioration, behavioral problems, and poor… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Hypothalamic hamartomas: with special reference to gelastic epilepsy and surgery.
This study presents six patients with hypothalamic hamartomas diagnosed on the basis of magnetic resonance imaging. Histological… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Mirth, laughter and gelastic seizures.
Little is known about what pathways subserve mirth and its expression laughter. We present three patients with gelastic seizures… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
Hemispheric asymmetry in the expression of positive and negative emotions. Neurologic evidence.
Three retrospective studies were conducted to examine functional brain asymmetry in the regulation of emotion. In the first study… 
Review
1970
Review
1970
Gelastic epilepsy.
SUMMARY A case of retinitis pigmentosa with laughing epilepsy is described. Stereotyped repeti-tive episodes oflimb movement… 
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