Gelastic Epilepsy. Onset in neonatal period
P. K. Sher and S. B. Brown
The phenomenon of gelastic epilepsy was first described in 1873, yet fewer
than 100 patients with this disorder have been reported on to date. The
purpose of this article is to report on the first two patients to our
knowledge with the onset of these seizures in the immediate neonatal
period. Both patients have been shown to have posterior hypothalamic mass
lesions presumably of congenital origin, and have remained free of
neurologic progression of the disease with conservative treatment.
