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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Who doesn’t enjoy a good chuckle? Laughing has been known to improve mood and attitude. Just hearing another person laugh might even make you feel better. But sometimes, laughing too hard can be ...

Unusual or uncontrollable laughter can signal serious health issues, according to neurologist Dr. Sudhir Kumar. Conditions like gelastic seizures, laughter-induced syncope, pathological laughter, and ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Uncontrollable and extended bouts of laughter as a symptom sound, well, a little funny. But to a Hawaii man who’d struggled with it for years, it was anything but.

Hyderabad, Dec 27 (IANS) A rare surgery was performed by a private Hyderabad hospital on a 3-year-old girl suffering from gelastic seizures, which used to make her have sudden bouts of laughter – for ...