Publication: A Girl Who is Smiling for no Reason: Gelastic Seizure- A Case Report
Date
2019
Authors
Article Type
Original Article
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
ISSN 1990-7974 eISSN 1990-7982
Volume Title
Pages
Pages: 181 - 184
Publisher
Nepal Paediatric Society (JNPS)
Abstract
Abstract:
Being a rare disorder, Gelastic seizure primarily presents as episodes of sudden occurrence of emotions usually associated with laugh or giggle due to facial contractions. A child presented with abnormal body movement in the form of smiling and uprolling of eyes, which was clinically diagnosed as gelastic seizure, a rare form of a very common presentation, epilepsy. The case is presented to highlight abnormal posturing and smiling episodes in a child can be a form of seizure episode, which generally presents with a diagnostic dilemma and therapeutic nightmare to the clinician.
Description
Subodh Sharma Paudel
Upendra Devkota Memorial National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Bansbari, Kathmandu,Nepal
Nikhil Agrawal
Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences, Shree Birendra Hospital, Chhauni, Kathmandu, Nepal
Keywords
Functional brain imaging, Gelastic Epilepsy, Hypothalamic Hamartoma, Smiling attitude, Video-EEG