Gelastic and Dacrystic Seizures
By: Annemarie DeChellis What are Gelastic and Dacrystic seizures? Gelastic and Dacrystic seizures are rare types of focal or partial seizures (Kerrigan &Iyengar, 2017). The term Gelastic seizures comes from the Greek word, gelastikos, meaninglaughter, and are characterized by brief involuntary episodes of laughter (Daly & Mulder, 1957).Similarly, Dacrystic seizures are named after the Greek […]