When Lucy Hoggan’s son Cadell laughs, the sound literally fills her with dread. Cadell, 3, has a rare form of gelastic epilepsy, which causes strange bouts of laughter – and could one day kill him, ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- The parents of a Slovakian toddler were left helpless and hopeless, after the boy's rare laughing condition made life a living nightmare. So as CBS2's Jennifer McLogan ...

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.

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 ...

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Doctors probed deep into the center of a 3-year-old girl's brain to save her from her own laughter. Anastasia Lagalla's uncontrollable laughter and seizures were part of an ...

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 ...

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 ...

When baby Jack laughed for hours a day, his parents just thought he was happy at first. But they later discovered a rare brain tumor was causing his unusual behavior. Jack Young, from the county of ...

While not too common, epilepsy puts people around you in danger if you happen to be wielding 3000 pounds of car. In the land down under, a senior public affairs officer experienced an epileptic fit ...