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'Pressure to laugh': An unusual epileptic symptom associated with small hypothalamic hamartomas
- Source :
- Neurology. 54:971-973
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2000.
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Abstract
- Article abstract Gelastic seizures are the hallmark of the epilepsy syndrome associated with hypothalamic hamartomas. Patients typically develop cognitive deterioration and refractory seizures. The authors describe three patients with small hypothalamic hamartomas without these features and thus identify a mild end to the clinical spectrum. All had the unusual symptom of “pressure to laugh,” often without actual laughter. This symptom could be dismissed as psychogenic but should be recognized as a clue to the presence of this unusual lesion.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Adolescent
Hamartoma
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Hypothalamus
Lesion
Laughter
Epilepsy
Hypothalamic hamartoma
Gelastic seizure
medicine
Humans
Psychogenic disease
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Brain Diseases
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Surgery
Epilepsy syndromes
Female
Neurology (clinical)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 1526632X and 00283878
- Volume :
- 54
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e95e597c768ad3c2fa37f4f0481c437c