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 ...

In a remarkable medical achievement, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur has successfully treated four children suffering from a rare and distressing neurological condition known as ...

AIIMS Jodhpur has made a major breakthrough in medicine by managing to cure four patients with a rare and drug-resistant type of epilepsy called 'Laughter Epilepsy' or gelastic seizure. Reports ...

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Since she was an infant, a 31-year-old woman had been experiencing bursts of uncontrollable laughter, but her condition had never been formally diagnosed until now. According to the woman, she would ...

With this achievement, AIIMS Jodhpur becomes the only hospital in Rajasthan and the second AIIMS after Delhi in the country to offer this highly specialised treatment. Associate Professor in the ...

“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 ...