Gelastic Epilepsy and Hypothalamic Hamartoma

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-14-3-4

Gelastic Epilepsy and Hypothalamic Hamartoma

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 14 (2000): Issue 3

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Mar 2000

Abstract

Three patients with small hypothalamic hamartomas and a recurrent “pressure to laugh,” often without actual laughter, are reported from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and McGill University, Canada.

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Biraben A Sartori E Taussig D Bernard AM Scarabin JM Gelastic seizures: video-EEG and scintigraphic analysis of a case with a frontal focus; review of the literature and pathophysiological hypotheses Epileptic Disord 1999 Dec 1 4 221 228 10937157
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-14-3-4 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 19 - 20

Published on: Mar 1, 2000

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Gelastic Epilepsy,

Hypothalamic Hamartomas,

Sodium Valproate

© 2000 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
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Volume 14 (2000): Issue 3