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Surgical treatment of extra-hypothalamic epilepsies presenting with gelastic seizures Volume 21, numéro 3, June 2019

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  • Surgical treatment of extra-hypothalamic epilepsies presenting with gelastic seizures

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1 Epilepsy Program, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, London, ON, Canada
2 School of Medicine, Research and Innovation Centre of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru
* Correspondence: David A. Steven London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, Room A10-323, 339 Windermere Road, London, ON, Canada

We provide an overview of the surgical outcome of extra-hypothalamic epilepsies with gelastic seizures based on an original case report and a summary of the literature. Twenty-two articles providing information on the outcome of resective surgery in 39 patients with extra-hypothalamic gelastic seizures from the temporal (19 patients) or frontal lobe (20 patients) were selected. We add another case of temporal lobe gelastic seizures to the literature with a video demonstrating the mirthful component of this patient's laughing seizures. Drug-refractory cases of gelastic seizures from the temporal or frontal lobes are amenable to surgical treatment following thorough investigation with imaging, as well as scalp and intracranial EEG.