Abstract
Gelastic seizures are classically associated with hypothalamic hamartoma. The most effective treatment for gelastic epilepsy is surgery, although confirming that a hypothalamic hamartoma is an epileptic lesion prior to surgical intervention is challenging. Here, we report the case of a patient with a hypothalamic hamartoma who was diagnosed with psychogenic non-epileptic gelastic seizures using video-EEG monitoring.
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Scarella, T., Macken, M.P., Gerard, E. et al. Psychogenic gelastic seizures in a patient with hypothalamic hamartoma. Epileptic Disord. 14, 187–189 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1684/epd.2012.0509
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