When Laughter Being Disease Symptoms

Normally people will laugh when I see or hear something funny. But sometimes the laughter can also be a clue as serious medical symptoms. When laughter can be a symptom of a disease?

As long as it is known that laughter is a sign of happiness and can also increase a person's mood for the better.

But if someone was suddenly laughing without any apparent reason, have twitching movements or tics, and looking slightly confused, then it might be shown laughter is one symptom of the disease.

As quoted from HowStuffWorks, Tuesday (22/06/2010) when a person laughs without deliberate and repetitive, there is a possibility the person has a pathological laughing (pathological laughter).

These symptoms are a sign of an underlying medical condition and usually affects the nervous system. Pathological laughter is not related to a sense of humor, joy or other expressions of happiness.

The human brain acts as the cockpit of the human nervous system. This nervous system sends a signal that controls involuntary actions like breathing and intentional acts such as walking or laughing.

When the signal is chaotic, such as a chemical imbalance, abnormal brain growth or birth defects, it can cause a strange laughter.

Some medical conditions characterized by symptoms of pathological laughter, namely:

1. In 2007 a girl (3 years) in New York experienced an unusual seizure, and grinned and laughed during the seizure.

Doctors discovered that he has a rare form of epilepsy that causes involuntary laughter. Finally doctors forced to perform surgery to remove benign tumors in the brain and the forced laughter heals.

2. Brain tumors or cysts can also cause uncontrollable laughter and embarrassing.

3. Acute stroke can also be marked with pathological laughter.

4. Angelman syndrome, a rare chromosomal disorder that affects the nervous system.
People with this condition usually can not talk and was always pleased with the gesture is often smiling and laughing. This is because there is increased stimulation in the brain that controls happiness.

5. Tourette Syndrome
Is a neurobiological disorder that causes a combination of tics and loud noises. Other symptoms are these people could laugh without any reason.

6. Drug abuse or chemical addiction.
In the two conditions was laughing that occur due to damage in the course of the nervous system transmits signals.

7. Dementia and anxiety can also cause abnormal laughter.