A clinical evaluation of gelastic and dacrystic seizures: a multicenter study.
Aylin Bican DemirBaşak Yılmaz ÖzMustafa Onur YıldızGul Bengi TurkTaner TanrıverdiAhmet BekarSeher Naz YeniIbrahim BoraPublished in: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (2022)
Gelastic and dacrystic seizures often suggest hypothalamic hamartomas, in the literature. This rare ictal behavior can originate from different cortical locations and lesions of a different nature. However, we found that gelastic seizures with smiling were a more homogenous group with regard to location in the temporal lobe, which we aimed to show by evaluating the patients included in this study.