Justin Cho just seemed like a happy child. But after having a classic epileptic seizure, doctors realized the spontaneous laughs were due to gelastic epilepsy. A benign mass deep in the brain triggers ...

BACKGROUND: Gelastic seizures are epileptic events characterized by bouts of laughter. Laughter-like vocalization is usually combined with facial contraction in the form of a smile. Gelastic epilepsy ...

(LOS ANGELES) — For years, Justin Cho’s family thought they simply had a happy kid who liked to laugh, even when nothing funny happened. “Ever since he was an infant he would giggle and it would be ...

A 40-year-old man’s uncontrollable, inappropriate laughter was more than a nuisance — it was a symptom of a rare form of epilepsy, according to doctors in Hawaii. The man had suffered since he was 8 ...